Archives of Steven B. Walmsley

Steve Walmsley received a completely favorable decision on appeal at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in a patent application with broad claims covering an important water quality sensor invention jointly developed by a major home products company and a leading university in the scientific water quality sensing field.  The examiner had issued […]

Steve Walmsley drafted and prosecuted a patent for a unique compound archery bow that was successfully asserted via litigation against several infringing entities, resulting in rapid settlement favorable to the patentee.  Reising attorneys pride themselves on drafting high quality patent applications that not only are broad and commercially relevant, but also deter infringers from challenging […]

When a competitor hit a client with a patent infringement suit involving many U.S. patents of a large extended international patent family, and before ordering a costly patent invalidation search, Steve Walmsley scoured the prosecution histories of all family members and discovered killer prior art objectively withheld by the client’s competitor in the U.S. patents.  […]

On behalf of Innovative Manufacturing Engineering (IME), Steve Walmsley has obtained powerful patent protection on innovations useful for reliably mounting ballistics-resistant panels on military tanks. Reising Ethington is proud to assist IME as an innovation leader for protecting U.S. military personnel.

On behalf of Law Enforcement Intelligent Devices (LEID), Steve Walmsley has obtained powerful patent protection for innovative weapon storage systems and pioneering identification tags for firearm accessory rails. Reising Ethington is proud to assist LEID as the innovation leader for secure weapon storage and tracking solutions for local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Steve Walmsley is now a member of the National Editorial Board (NEB) for the newsletter Ideas on Intellectual Property Law. Published by Thomson Reuters, the newsletter covers hot topics in patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law.