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     Steven Rinehart has been a registered patent attorney for 18 years. He has filed and prosecuted over 600 patent applications and almost 1,000 trademarks. He is licensed in Virginia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and maintains an office in Alexandria. He offers expeditious, cost-effective to all of his clients. Steve has handled patent and trademark infringement matters in U.S. district courts in twenty different states, and handled over 300 UDRP domain name disputes. Steve regularly handles litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Steven Rinehart represent parties to Section 337 ITC investigations before the International Trade Commission, and is experienced dealing with Amazon-related patent and trademark matters for Amazon sellers, including Amazon’s Neutral Patent Evaluation Program. Examples of Steve’s work is detailed below.

     Steve is a partner with Vested Law LLP and owns a webdesign company which he can use to help his clients begin commercial use of trademarks. Steve is also on the Board of Directors of Friends of the Lusitania in Ireland, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which owns the salvage rights to the RMS Lusitania (torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in 1915 brining the U.S. into WWI).

• Juris Doctorate: U. of Utah College of Law (2003)

• Bachelors: Brigham Young Unversity (2000)

• Licensed Pilot: Federal Aviation Admin.

• Ecclesiastical Latin: Veterum Sapientia Institutum

• Rinehart, Steven L., Regula Pro Lege Si Deficit Lex: The Latin Sapience of High Judges; FEDERAL LAWYER 63, 52 – 57 (Sep. 4, 2016).

• Rinehart, Steven L., Small Claims Court: Getting More Bang for Fewer Bucks, 23 UTAH BAR J. 32-34 (Sep. 4, 2010) (quoted by the Supreme Court in Allen v. Moyer, 2011 UT 44, 259 P.3d 1049).

• Rinehart, Steven L., Officivm Tvvm; 30 UTAH BAR J.30 (May 2, 2017).

• Rinehart, Steven, Are We Too Smart for Metric? In Defense of the Imperial System of Measurement in Law; 71 VIRGINIA LAWYER No. 5 (Nov. 2022).

• Rinehart, Steven, Improbable Cause; COEUR D’ALENE PRESS (Sep. 2021 – Feb. 2023).

• Rinehart, Steven L., In Defense of the Imperial System of Measurement in Law; 35 UTAH BAR J. 6 (Nov. 2022).