Haseman, Julie A.

Steve Scanlon oversees the mechanical patent prosecution practice in the Firm's Cleveland Office. This covers all phases of patent prosecution at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other national patent offices worldwide. His practice also includes counseling on strategies for developing U.S. and international patent portfolios, and he frequently provides Jones Day's IP clients with opinions on patentability, validity, and infringement in technologies that vary from mechanical and electrical to chemical and pharmaceutical subject matters.

Green technologies are important in Steve's work, with prominent examples including the low NOx industrial burner systems of Fives North American Combustion, Inc. and the thin-film plastic beverage containers of Smart Bottle Inc. Before joining Jones Day, Steve was a partner in a Cleveland intellectual property firm where he gained extensive experience with patents for automotive technologies, including power steering and suspension systems, occupant restraint systems, and air bag deployment systems. Steve also has worked with fiber optics, medical instruments, engineering materials, and offset printing presses and operating systems. His engineering background includes experience as a structural engineer on several major construction projects in New York, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Detroit.

Steve has lectured at meetings of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association, and he has published articles in IndustryWeek and Mechanical Engineering magazine. He is an active member of ASME, SME, and the Cleveland Engineering Society.