Stoneman Law Patent Group (a division of Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd., which has been serving clients since 1961) is a law firm specializing primarily in patent prosecution. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, we help clients from all over the United States and around the world by offering quality patent prosecution and other intellectual property related transactional work within a predictable budgetable agreement.
Marty has been a registered patent attorney practicing in Phoenix, Arizona, for over 40 years and is an active member of the Intellectual Property Section of the Arizona Bar. In Ohio, he graduated from Ohio State (math major) and Capital University Law School. He graduated first in his law school class, was trained in patent law at Battelle, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar. He has used his broad patent experience to develop quality-enhancing and cost-saving systems for preparing patent applications. Marty has, in legal, robotics, and behavioral areas, presented many technical papers at international conferences and designed and conducted many successful workshops. His writings include several published books; and Marty is himself the inventor of patent rights in artificial intelligence (machines having humanoid cognitive systems). He now offers cognitive training to lawyers and others in antidotes to false persuasion.
Jim, after earning a degree in Architectural Design from Arizona State University, acquired 15 years experience overseeing, and coordinating with consulting structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers concerning, the design and delivery of architectural commissions with values between one and twenty million dollars. In this work, Jim developed and administered network-based CAD systems and coordinated technical specifications and multi-disciplined engineering construction documents. Jim is now a full-time patent consultant with Stoneman Law Patent Group in addition to his continuing contributions as an in-house patent illustrator.
Vickie is a graduate of the Paralegal Certificate program from Phoenix Career College, an American Bar Association accredited institution (now Kaplan College) and also earned an Associate Degree from Phoenix College. While a native of North Carolina, she attended Appalachian State University, located in the western part of the state. Vickie has had nearly 18 years’ experience in the high-tech semiconductor industry while employed at Motorola, Inc. at the Mesa, Arizona and Austin, Texas locations. There, she worked closely with technicians and engineers in semiconductor research and development projects as well as production and wafer fabrication in the disciplines of diffusion, photolithography, and plasma/wet etches in six-sigma Class 100 clean-room manufacturing environments. In her spare time, she is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and a member of the Phoenix chapter of Women on Wheels®. At Stoneman Law Patent Group, Vickie is the pleasant voice on the telephone and chief client correspondent coordinator.
Cary received a B.S. in Physiological Psychology from Arizona State University and acquired licenses in both the insurance and real estate industry. He has over twenty years experience as a construction and contracts administrator. His experience includes project management for large architectural firms with project construction costs exceeding 50 million dollars, including the preparation of technical specifications and technical inspection of construction projects. In addition to his excellent writing and technical abilities, Cary loves to learn; He has been a patent search specialist and consultant with the firm for over fourteen years. A lifelong Phoenix area resident, Cary enjoys being active in community activities including present and former work with: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (AZ District Chief & Alumni President), The Construction Specification Institute (Professional Director, Board Member and Committee Chair) and US Water Polo (Player, Coach and Referee).
RJ grew up working with computers and has a functional knowledge of Basic, C++, VBA, PHP, SQL, and HTML. While raising a family, RJ attended Western Nevada Community College in Carson City, NV, earning AS degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Pre-Engineering. RJ then went on to graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a degree in Physics. During school, RJ worked with a two terawatt z-pinch, know as Zebra, at the Nevada Terawatt Facility assisting research, in the field of plasma physics, on plasmas in high-energy magnetic fields. Gravitational physics, as RJ's favorite topic in physics, continues to be a field of interest and study for RJ as new information emerges in this field of science.
Eric grew up in the Four Corners area of New Mexico where he spent his free time playing sports. After high school, he spent two years in Germany on a church service mission and learned to speak German. Following this service, he moved back to New Mexico and earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Univerity of New Mexico where he helped to charter a student German Society. While at UNM, he participated in chemical research centered on synthesizing and characterizing metal oxides, magnetic nanoparticles, and air sensitive materials. Eric then moved his family to Concord, NH to attend Franklin Pierce Law Center (now known as the University of New Hampshire School of Law) where he earned a law degree and an LLM in Intellectual Property. While at Franklin Pierce, he competed for two years in the International Trademark Association (INTA) hosted Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition in trademark law. Eric recently moved to Phoenix to start his career in intellectual property with the Stoneman Law Patent Group and is excited to hit the ground running. He is a member of the Arizona State Bar and a registered patent attorney. Eric loves playing basketball and downhill skiing; but his current favorite activity is watching his three daughters dance in ballet.
Sara, a native Californian, received a B.S. in Chemistry from Mount Saint Mary’s College in L.A. In 2004, she obtained a Ph.D. in Bio-Organic Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her thesis research focused on the design and development of miniature proteins. During postdoctoral stints at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, she acquired further experience in organic synthesis, solar cells, assay development, and protein total synthesis. Her most recent research involved investigations of the role protein mis-folding in Parkinson’s disease. After publishing more than a dozen research manuscripts over the course of her career, she is currently putting her broad background and technical writing skills to work as a Patent Consultant at SLPG. Sara has just begun the fall semester at ASU's College of Law, yet remains At Counsel with SLPG.
Gary Bowers will be assisting with marketing and administrative support. A University of Arizona graduate, Gary has been a Coordinator, Analyst and Help Desk resource for a major Valley hospital system; an encoding operator at a Remote Encoding Center of the US Postal Service; a newsletter writer and editor of a semimonthly publication with a distribution of more than 75 employees; an author of press releases and sponsorship contracts for an international sportsmarketing firm; and a substitute teacher of more than ten years' duration.
