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Partner

Lawyer Overview

Stephen B. Maebius is an Intellectual Property law partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm's Management Committee and co-chair of the Life Sciences Industry Team. He is also a member of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice and the Nanotechnology Industry Team. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in the Biotechnology Group. He now handles many types of IP work for his clients, including IP diligence reviews, opinions, international portfolio management, licensing, litigation, reexaminations, patent term extensions and interferences. Mr. Maebius has been active as both a teacher and author in the intellectual property field. He has been a visiting associate professor of intellectual property law at Tokyo University's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, as well as a faculty adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught comparative and international patent law. Mr. Maebius regularly operates in Japan, working with the firm's Tokyo office. In addition, he testified at the 2002 FTC/DOJ hearings on the "Implications of Competition and Patent Law and Policy." In the area of nanotechnology, Mr. Maebius helped start the NanoBusiness Alliance and the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. He continues to serve on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance, and he is an editor-in-chief of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. Mr. Maebius graduated from Cornell University (B.S. biology, 1989) and the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1994). He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the state of Virginia, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Maebius has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Biotechnology law (2007-2009), as well as Intellectual Property (2009). In 2006, he was runner-up in the Washington Business Journal's Top Washington Lawyers for Intellectual Property. He also serves as a board member of the CARES Foundation.

Areas of Practice

• Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Emerging Technologies
• International Business
• Life Sciences
• Nanotechnology
• China

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1994
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America ® in the area of Biotechnology Law
• Washington Business Journal's 2006 Top Washington Lawyers for Intellectual Property

Past Employment Positions

• George Washington University Law School, Adjunct Professor

Education

• George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia, 1994
  J.D.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1989
  B.S.
  Major: Biology

Published Works

• "Bayer Highlights Debate on Research Method Use (Patent Won't Cover Fruit of Offshore Research Not Made with the Method)", Natl. Law Journal, 2001
• "Novel DNA Sequences and the Utility Requirement: The Human Genome Initiative", Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1992
• "The New Use of Fair Use: Accessing Copyrighted Programs Through Reverse Engineering", Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1993

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