Spencer Fane LLP is pleased to announce Stewart Mesher joined the firm’s Austin, Texas, office as a partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice group.
His practice is focused on litigation and transactions for all forms of IP, portfolio management and counseling related to patents, copyrights, unfair competition, and Internet domain name rights, as well as trademark prosecution and TTAB proceedings. Stewart previously served as in-house counsel at an American multinational semiconductor company where he counseled its desktop and server processor businesses as well as its platform engineering team and supported its IP litigation and licensing activities.
“Stewart brings a diverse IP background and the technical knowledge that will enable our office to help our clients navigate this highly dynamic legal sector as it continues to evolve,” said Bill Hopkins, Office Managing Partner for Spencer Fane in Austin. “We look forward to the contributions and impact his work will have here in Texas as well as on our expanding, cross-office IP practice.”
Stewart earned his engineering degree at the University of Washington before completing his Master of Business Administration at Seattle University. Following, he earned his Juris Doctor at Vanderbilt Law School, also completing Harvard Law School’s highly selective ABOTA National Trial College. Notably, he is trilingual in English, Hebrew, and Spanish.