Patent & Trademark Lawyer – Steven Rinehart

Results-Oriented Representation®

Steven Rinehart is a registered patent attorney who regularly files trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including trademarks for Amazon sellers seeking to enter the Brand Registry and benefit from enhanced brand content. Steven has filed over 1,000 patents and trademarks and handled hundreds of lawsuits and arbitrations in U.S. courts involving intellectual property. Steve regularly handles trademark infringement lawsuits and owns a webdesign company which he can use to help clients put trademarks into use. Steve is licensed before the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Utah, the USPTO, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has experience litigating intellectual property cases before the TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board), the PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board), and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is a partner with VestedLaw LLP d/b/a Western IP Law. Steven is also a member of the Board of Directors of Friends of the Lusitania, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which owns the salvage rights to the RMS Lusitania (torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in 1915, bringing the U.S. into WWI).

Education

Juris Doctorate: U. of Utah College of Law (2003)

Bachelors: Brigham Young Unversity (2000)

Licensed Pilot: Federal Aviation Admin.

Ecclesiastical Latin: Veterum Sapientia Institutum

Admissions

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (61,403)

Utah Bar Association (11,494)

Virginia State Bar (81,738)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2016)

• Eastern District of Texas

U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)

Court of International Trade (2021)

Contact

Phone

702-691-3194

619-569-2606

Email

info@californiatrademarkfirm.com

steve@nevadatrademarklaw.com

Recent Publications by Steve

Rinehart, Steven L., Regula Pro Lege Si Deficit Lex: The Latin Sapience of High Judges; FEDERAL LAWYER 63, 52 – 57 (Sep. 4, 2016).

Rinehart, Steven L., Small Claims Court: Getting More Bang for Fewer Bucks, 23 UTAH BAR J. 32-34 (Sep. 4, 2010) (quoted by the Supreme Court in Allen v. Moyer, 2011 UT 44, 259 P.3d 1049).

Rinehart, Steven L., Officivm Tvvm; 30 UTAH BAR J.30 (May 2, 2017).

Rinehart, Steven, Are We Too Smart for Metric? In Defense of the Imperial System of Measurement in Law; 71 VIRGINIA LAWYER No. 5 (Nov. 2022).

Rinehart, Steven, Improbable Cause; COEUR D’ALENE PRESS (Sep. 2021 – Feb. 2023).

Rinehart, Steven L., In Defense of the Imperial System of Measurement in Law; 35 UTAH BAR J. 6 (Nov. 2022).

500+

Trademarks Filed

Steve has filed over 500 trademarks applications.