People
Alessandro Steinfl
Alessandro Steinfl is a U.S. Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. He was a partner with the Los Angeles office of Ladas & Parry. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles, he was at the Italian Intellectual Property firm of Società Italiana Brevetti in Rome.
Alessandro has been a patent practitioner, either as attorney or agent, since 1993. He represents clients on a wide range of IP-related technical areas including semiconductor technology, computer software, hardware, nanotechnology and business methods.
Alessandro received his Juris Doctorate degree from Southwestern University School of Law in 2004 and his Laurea Specialistica (Masters Equivalent) degree in Electronic Engineering issued by the Italian University System (Università Sapienza di Roma) in 1993.
He is admitted to the California State Bar, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Italian Patent and Trademark Office. He has been admitted to the European Patent Office.
Alessandro has authored the European Patent Protection of E-Commerce Technology (From .Com to Millionaire – The Silicon Valley Phenomenon, San Francisco, May 12, 2000) and The Doctrine of Equivalents Through the Eyes of the European Patent Convention (CASRIP Symposium Publication Series No. 6, July 2001 at 114).
Enrica Bruno
Enrica Bruno is a U.S. Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. She was with the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig and later in-house IP counsel at Materia Inc. Prior to moving to California, she also practiced at the Italian Intellectual Property firm of Societa’ Italiana Brevetti in Rome.
Enrica has professional experience in Europe and the U.S. since 1997, which includes managing world-wide patent portfolios, developing intellectual property strategies for protecting companies’ technology, preparing and prosecuting national and PCT patent applications before the U.S. and European Patent Office, prosecuting patents in other countries, due diligence, litigation support, and drafting agreements relating to various areas of intellectual property. Her primary areas of practice include biotechnology, biochemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, organometallic chemistry, design and mechanical arts.
Enrica earned both a Laurea Specialistica (Masters Equivalent) degree in Biology and the equivalent of a Juris Doctorate both issued by the Italian University System (Università degli Studi di Palermo).
Enrica is admitted to the California State Bar, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Italian Patent and Trademark Office. She has been admitted to practice law in Italy and before the European Patent Office.
Enrica lectured on patents to various International institutions including the American Chamber of Commerce, the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza” and “Tor Vergata”, the University of Naples, the Association of Patent & Trademark Attorneys in the Italian Industry and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
Daniel Ueno
Daniel Ueno is a Patent Agent registered with the USPTO. He has experience in drafting patent matters in electrical and electronic devices, digital signal processing, microfluidic circuits, software, as well as biomedical devices.
He worked as an engineering intern at Hughes Space and Communications where he performed integrated testing and evaluation on geostationary satellites such as TDRS-J for NASA and XM Radio in space simulated environments.
Daniel’s professional background includes serving 10 years in the U.S. Navy, both active duty and in the reserves. He has served in a variety of tours including Nuclear Propulsion Officer onboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), where he supervised the operation of two 550MW nuclear reactors as well as an Electronic Technician and a Surface Warfare Officer on other U.S. Naval warships. He has also been deployed to the North Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Daniel attended University of Southern California on NROTC scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He speaks conversational Japanese.
Michael Chen
Michael Chen is a Patent Agent registered with the USPTO. His experience in patent drafting includes video/image coding, biomedical devices, semiconductor technology and analog/digital electronic circuits.
Michael established a strong background through academia in many areas of Electrical Engineering including design of analog and digital circuits, fiber optic systems, and communication systems.
He received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is fluent in conversational Mandarin Chinese.
Jean Y. Yang-Scharlotta
Jean Y. Yang-Scharlotta is a Patent Agent registered with the USPTO. She has twelve years of experience in the microelectronics arena from the microprocessor and flash memory device maker Advanced Micro Devices and its subsidiary Spansion located in Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley). From this experience, she has in-depth knowledge of microelectronics device fabrication technologies and flash memory device architecture. Prior to Advanced Micro Devices, Jean conducted research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Jean received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin.
Dr. Yang-Scharlotta has been named inventor on over 64 patents in the U.S. and world-wide. In addition, she authored many scientific papers in the fields of microelectronic devices and self-assembled monolayers and has been a lecturer in the University of California Irvine for a graduate course on advanced wafer fabrication processes.
Jocelyn (Wenhua) Yu
Jocelyn Yu is a Patent Agent registered with the USPTO. Before joining Steinfl & Bruno, she worked as a technical writer for Vesper Scientific, Inc. and a graduate research assistant at Pennsylvania State University. Jocelyn has 8 years of hands-on research experience with a comprehensive and solid background in biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology, cellular and molecular biology, neurobiology, genetics and virology. Areas of practice include biotechnology, biochemistry, and pharmaceutical chemistry patent prosecution.
Jocelyn received her Ph.D. degree in Genetics from Pennsylvania State University and her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Wuhan University, China. She is English-Mandarin bilingual.
