Stephen Steinberg

Steve Steinberg is a Partner of the firm. Steve is an intellectual property (IP), privacy and business trial lawyer whose practice focuses on claims for patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, theft of trade secrets, privacy claims, and other complex business disputes in both federal and state courts. He has served as lead counsel in several cases, and has represented clients in numerous trials, where he has won cases for both plaintiffs and defendants.Steve has litigated patent cases concerning mobile phone accessories, web browsers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), networking technologies such as Power-over-Ethernet and WiFi, and power conversion technologies. He has handled trademark and copyright cases for video game, e-commerce, consumer product, and specialty food companies. Steve has also represented technology companies in prosecuting and defending against claims for theft of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duties, interference, and related claims, as well as cases for breach of contract against suppliers and disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Steve has defended multiple healthcare systems in class action privacy litigation, including claims involving PHI under HIPAA, “medical information” under CMIA, as well as the statutory, common law and constitutional claims based on the use of analytics, pixels and cookies on websites.Before joining Bartko, Steve was Counsel at Vasquez, Benisek and Lindgren / Morgan Miller Blair and an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he handled a wide array of business disputes.While in law school, Steve served as an extern for the Honorable Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, and as an extern for the Honorable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma of the Hong Kong High Court in Hong Kong.