Steve Shear granted exclusive rights to Global Institute of Intellectual Property to manufacture, publish, reprint and sell the reference works currently entitled “Basic Patent Process (US),” “Advanced Patent Process (US),” “PCT,” and “Claim Drafting,” (collectively the “Works”), in book form throughout India, Pakistan, Sri Lank, Bangladesh, Turkey and Malaysia.
A former United States Patent Examiner (June, 1967 – August, 1969) in the electrical / mechanical arts, Steve Shear has been practicing patent, trademark, copyright and other forms of intellectual property law for over 40 years. During those years he has prepared and prosecuted well over 800 patent applications.
He is the executive director and founder of Silicon Valley Seminars and has been conducting workshops for patent attorneys and staff and patent seminars for inventors, executives and general attorneys since 1984.
Steve Shear received a B.S. degree (with an emphasis on electrical engineering) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966 and a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1969. In addition to all of his other endeavors, Steve has been an Adjunct Professor and Member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Colorado, School of Engineering and was a co-founder of a number of start-up companies including Colorado
Display Technologies, Light Engineering, Phiar Corporation and XenoPur Systems, Inc.
Steve is a painter and sculptor (www.shearstudio.com) and lives with his wife Susan in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson where he is also busy writing poetry and walking.
