Steven M. Mills

Steven Mills has several years of technical engineering experience. He was a design engineer at RCA Corporation in Burlington, Massachusetts, where he participated in the design and manufacture of electronic processing and communication systems. He was also a design engineer at Raytheon Company of Lexington, Massachusetts, where he was involved in the design, analysis, and integration of digital, analog and microwave circuitry in radar communication systems.

During his years of practice as a patent attorney, Mr. Mills has been involved in a wide range of patent and trademark matters, including U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, patent validity, infringement and licensing matters, corporate transactions, and opposition and litigation proceedings. His areas of technical concentration include the electrical, optical, computer, mechanical and physical arts. In particular, he has prepared and prosecuted patent applications involving, for example, semiconductor devices and device fabrication processes and technology, electronic circuits and systems including integrated system LSI circuit designs, computer hardware including microprocessor and peripheral devices and architecture, Internet software and applications, massively parallel computing systems, communications systems, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, imaging systems including computed tomography and ultrasound systems for medical diagnostics and materials detection, medical instruments and testing and monitoring equipment for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, optical devices and systems including MEMS devices and photonic crystals, optical networks and transport devices and systems, lasers, remote sensing and measuring devices, and mechanical devices and systems.

Court Memberships

• New York 

Honors

• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
• Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society
• Sigma Zeta National Science and Mathematics Honor Society

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Boston Patent Law Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association