Steve Schortgen is Sheppard’s global co-leader of the Intellectual Property practice group. An experienced intellectual property and computer science trial lawyer, he has first-chaired more than 100 patent cases—in all major patent dockets—and successfully defended clients against more than $3 billion in asserted claims. He has also tried and prevailed more than a dozen times on claims arising out of the design and installation of large-scale information technology systems. Steve also has substantial first-chair experience handling copyright, trade secret and trademark cases.
Clients know Steve as a skilled trial lawyer, with a strong technical background. He quickly masters technical details covering a wide variety of products and communicates effectively with judges and juries. According to Chambers, clients report that “Steve has the ability to take complex matters and distil them into a cogent story that a jury or judge can understand. He is super smooth and explains things in an eloquent way. He is a tremendous asset and master at this.” Others report “He will go to battle. He is very smart and very good at what he does. He is a good person. I’ve engaged him because he gets outstanding results.”
Steve’s clients include numerous Fortune 100 companies, including in the fields of medical devices, cell phones, laptops and desktops, micro-towers, video cards and display technologies, ethernet peripherals, cameras, lenses, augment reality technologies, submersible cooling arrays for computing farms, computerized security protocols and multi-factor authentication, and other computer-related technologies.