Steve is a co-founder and the current CEO of Deuterium Energetics. He was also a co-founder of its predecessor, C3L, which was formed to develop and commercialize its version of confinement fusion. Prior to that, he was outside patent counsel for C3L and its parent, Seldon Technologies. As CEO of Deuterium Energetics, he is responsible for its management and the development of its intellectual property. Steve has a B.S. in Material Science from California State University at San Jose. He initially conducted research on irradiated reactor materials at Battelle Memorial Institute, authoring four published papers in that area. He did graduate work in metallurgical engineering at the Ohio State University and then went to law school where he received a Juris Doctorate from Capital University. He worked in the patent and legal department of Battelle on advanced materials, mechanical systems, and materials forming for three years while going to law school at night and while serving in the Marine Corps Reserve. He then transferred to the Battelle Development Corporation where he evaluated markets for new technology for monetization by Battelle. In 1975 he joined Finnegan as an attorney in its Washington DC office where he developed and litigated IP for large and small technology-based companies. He became an equity partner in 1981 and retired from Finnegan in 2013. At Finnegan, he did extensive work in high-performance materials, magnetic recording, ceramics, powder metallurgy, nanotechnology, advanced materials fabrication, passive armor, and advanced weapons and projectiles. He has represented Toyota, Ramtron, Caterpillar, Smith-Kline Beecham, TEAC, Hitachi Metals, HiSmelt, Toshiba, Pirelli, Louis Vuitton, Toshiba Tungaloy, Nikon, General Refractories, Force Protection, and startups including SinterFire, Seldon Technologies, MetOx, and Allomet, He has lectured at Georgetown University McGeorge School of Business, and before various groups regarding intellectual property, design patent law, technology transfer, and the use of IP as the basis for starting a technology-based company. He is the past chairman of the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1986-1987), and the past president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (2003-2004). He has retired from the practice of law but was a member of the bar of the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and various US District Courts. Steve also litigated trade secret cases in various state courts.