Stephen (Steve) B. Maebius is a partner and IP lawyer with Foley & Lardner. He has led teams within Foley handling a variety of different kinds of IP work, including IP due diligence reviews, infringement and validity opinions, international portfolio management, licensing, litigation with parallel inter partes reviews, reexaminations and interferences, and pharmaceutical patent term extensions. He is a former member of the firm’s management committee and former chair of the IP department. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the biotechnology group of the US Patent & Trademark Office.