ASSOCIATES

Steven R. Bartholomew
Drew Berweger
Adam M. DeRosa, Ph.D.
Michelle Liu, Ph.D.
Jason Poulos
Michael W. Russell, Ph.D.

		Steven R. Bartholomew Associate
Steven R. Bartholomew received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University. He received Juris Doctor degree from Northern Illinois University College of Law where he was the Senior Staff Editor of the Law Review. He is admitted to the State Bars of New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, and California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu engineering honorary society, the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California, the Federal Communications Bar Association, the AIPLA, Licensing Executives Society International, Attorneys Serving Clients of Modest Means, Chicago Patent Professionals, and the Middle East Trademark Group. Prior to joining Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, Mr. Bartholomew was Senior Corporate Counsel at AT&T-Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He was formerly a Patent Attorney with the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Bartholomew focuses his practice on patent drafting and prosecution in the electrical, computer and software arts, both domestic and international. He has experience collaborating with engineers to identify technical innovations; providing subject matter expertise for business transactions; preparing opinions; advising clients on strategies to mitigate legal risks while optimizing business opportunities, litigating intellectual property disputes; conducting prior art searches; drafting clearance/invalidity opinions; providing client counseling; managing client patent portfolios; providing subject matter expertise for business transactions; formulating global patent strategies for foreign and domestic filing; providing client counseling in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and privacy rights; procurement of insurance for defending against and pursuing patent infringement claims; structuring, drafting and negotiating complex contracts; rendering strategic validity and infringement opinions; and delineating innovations for patentability. In addition, he advises clients with regard to Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Covered Business Methods (CBM) proceedings which, in some cases, are viable alternatives to patent litigation. Mr. Bartholomew has patent preparation and technical expertise in a variety of industry- specific areas. These areas include wireless and mobile devices, artificial intelligence, computer software, computer architecture, semiconductors, and automotive electronics. He also has considerable experience in the medical technology field including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment, consumer health monitoring products and blood pressure devices, as well as software and business methods expertise in the financial services arena. Mr. Bartholomew counsels clients in the procurements of insurance for defending against and pursuing patent infringement, including patent abatement insurance, patent enforcement insurance and patent liability insurance. He is the holder of four patents, two U.S. and two European, related to handsets and wireless communications. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Bartholomew was an Electrical Engineer at Motorola Communications in Schaumburg, Illinois where he designed RF circuitry for mobile handsets and developed computer programs for implementing automated test procedures. In addition to patent law, Mr. Bartholomew has significant experience in the field of communications law, broadcast law, and real estate/zoning law, especially related to the construction of tall cellular and broadcast towers and related tower and land leases. His qualifications are a matter of record before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Email: sbartholomew@ssmp.com
		Drew Berweger Associate
Drew Berweger received his B.S. (magna cum laude) in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College in 2005, and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, receiving a certificate in Technology Commercialization. Prior to joining Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, Mr. Berweger was an intern with General Electric Global Research, where he prepared and prosecuted patent applications. He also worked with Syracuse University Technology Transfer Office, doing patent and market research. Mr. Berweger is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and was admitted to the N.Y. State Bar in 2009. Mr. Berweger is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Email: dberweger@ssmp.com
		Adam M. DeRosa, Ph.D. Associate
Adam DeRosa received his B.S. in Biology from Loyola University in 2003, his doctorate in Genetics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2007 and completed a fellowship in Physiology and Biophysics at SUNY at Stony Brook. Dr. DeRosa received his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in New York in 2015, where he was a member of the Law Review. Dr. DeRosa was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2016, and is licensed to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to joining Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C. in January 2013, Dr. DeRosa worked as a Licensing Associate in the Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations at Stony Brook University for the Research Foundation for The State University of New York, where he obtained expertise in complex licensing negotiations, contract drafting, the procurement of patents, and IP litigation. Dr. DeRosa has technical expertise in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in semiconductor and material sciences, genetics, biotechnology, cellular and molecular biology, cancer biology, immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, biophysics, biomedical engineering, medical imaging, and pulmonary medicine. Dr. DeRosa has published 10 scientific manuscripts in various medical journals and a text book chapter on human genetic disease. Email: aderosa@ssmp.com
		Michelle Liu, Ph.D. Associate
Michelle Liu received her B.S. in Polymer Chemistry from Sichuan University (China) in 1992, her M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Northeastern University in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Washington in 2003. She holds a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law (2011). Dr. Liu is admitted to the Washington State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to practicing law, Dr. Liu worked as a researcher in both academic and industrial labs responsible for developing cutting-edge functional materials for organic light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics. Dr. Liu has published papers in numerous scientific journals and is an inventor of an U.S. patent. Dr. Liu's practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in the areas of chemistry, materials science, semiconductor materials and devices, optical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. She also provides patent portfolio management, patent validity and non-infringement analyses, patent landscape and whitespace analyses, and due diligence analysis in these areas. Additional language: Chinese Email: mliu@ssmp.com
		Jason Poulos Associate
Jason Poulos received his B.S., Computer Science and B.E., Computer Engineering from a joint program between New York University and Stevens Institute of Technology in 2005. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2010. Mr. Poulos was admitted to the N.Y. State Bar in 2011 and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining Scully, Scott, Murphy, and Presser, Mr. Poulos was an Assistant General Counsel at Cantor Fitzgerald, LP where he prepared, prosecuted, and managed a substantial portion of Cantor Fitzgerald's domestic and foreign patent portfolio. Mr. Poulos is experienced in all aspects of patent procurement with technical expertise in financial services, commercial gaming, consumer electronics, medical devices, computer hardware, software, and business methods including: Electronic trading systems and software; financial instruments; electronic trading algorithms; fixed and mobile gaming devices, systems, and software; mobile gaming location and identity verification systems and software; on-line gambling and gaming; fantasy sports; machine learning; electrosurgical generators and generator algorithms; electrosurgical devices (RF, microwave, and ultrasonic); surgical staplers; surgical clip appliers; endoscopic surgical devices; bronchoscopes; ventilators; user interfaces for virtual bronchoscopy and pathway planning; digital cameras; image processing and facial recognition algorithms; virtual reality devices; printers; and digital data communications; Email: jpoulos@ssmp.com
		Michael W. Russell, Ph.D. Associate
Dr. Michael Russell received his undergraduate degree from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, also in Materials Science and Engineering, where he was supported by an IBM Graduate Fellowship and a Corning Glassworks Fellowship. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi engineering honorary societies. Dr. Russell received his Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2004, is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Russell was an IP attorney at Corning Incorporated from 2008-2015. Dr. Russell's practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, patentability and risk assessment evaluations, agreement work, portfolio management, and client counseling. Dr. Russell has experience across a wide range of technical disciplines, including semiconductor processing, pharmaceuticals, catalysis, filtration, optics, and paper products. Prior to practicing law, Dr. Russell was a process development engineer at ATMI, Inc. in Danbury, Connecticut where he developed metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and integration processes for ferroelectric thin films for non-volatile memory applications. He is listed as an inventor on eleven issued U.S. patents. Dr. Russell was a J. William Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Rosario in Rosario, Argentina where he collaborated on research involving the evolution of active species for metal surface nitriding using optical emission spectroscopy in a pulsed plasma. He was also awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC where he designed and constructed a chemical vapor deposition system to deposit single-crystal wide bandgap materials. Dr. Russell is a former patent examiner with the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Email: mrussell@ssmp.com