Mark T. Stephenson

Mark has experience in assisting clients to assess competitor patent properties as part of freedom-to-operate efforts, as well as infringement opinion activities. He has been involved in the review and drafting of intellectual property provisions contained within purchase and nondisclosure agreements. Mark has reviewed intellectual property provisions in a joint venture agreement related to the sharing of intellectual property and has audited the intellectual property holdings related to a company spin-off.

Mark is capable of handling a wide variety of subject matter areas, including mechanical, aerospace and some electrical related technologies. His areas of technical experience include medical devices, internal combustion engines, including diesel and gas turbine engines, lubrication systems, lighting systems, locks, door closers, refrigeration systems, composite structures, nozzle systems, fuel injectors, fuel cells, turbochargers, bearings, coatings, aircraft structures, safety devices, automatic controls, software, actuation systems and targeting systems.

Prior to private practice, Mark worked for several years as an aerospace engineer at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center located at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. While at NASA, he gained experience with a variety of feedback control system architectures, control system design techniques, fault detection and failure accommodation, linear and nonlinear model development and analysis, simulations and V&V activities including hardware and aircraft-in-the-loop. Mark worked on a variety of flight projects while at NASA either as a project engineer or as a technical reviewer. For many years he worked on the autonomous X-43A hypersonic vehicle, during which he served as NASA Dryden's Lead Flight Controls Engineer.

While at Purdue University, Mark was a member of the Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society and Sigma Gamma Tau, National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society.