Stanley D. Ference III

Stanley D. Ference III


Ference & Associates LLC

Recognized since 2019

Sewickley, Pennsylvania

Practice Areas

Copyright Law

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Patent Law

Trademark Law

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Copyright Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Copyright Law
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Stanley Ference practices in all aspects of intellectual property law. Stanley’s experience includes securing domestic and foreign patent, trademark, and copyright rights. He has been registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1989.

Stanley has obtained patents for clients in the U.S. and in foreign countries. He also has experience filing and prosecuting international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and managing foreign filings under the Paris Convention. His prosecution practice covers all areas of technology, with an emphasis in writing and prosecuting applications in the electronic circuit, computer software, optical processors, signal processing, and electro-mechanical related arts.

Stanley has a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV Preeminent®. He is a Masters of the Bench member of the Q. Todd Dickinson Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. Stanley has previously been on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute’s Patent Bar Review course and is currently on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute’s Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp course. Stanley is also an e-Discovery Special Master for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Prior to forming the law firm of Ference & Associates, Mr. Ference was associated with the Intellectual Property Group of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania’s largest law firm. Prior to that time, he was an associate with Brumbaugh, Graves, Donohue & Raymond, an intellectual property firm in New York, New York. Brumbaugh, Graves subsequently merged into Baker Botts, LLP.

Professional Associations & Memberships

· Pennsylvania Bar Association

· Allegheny County Bar Association

· Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association

· American Intellectual Property Law Association

Contact & Links
Location
  • 409 Broad Street
    Sewickley, PA 15143-1577
Languages
  • English
Education
  • Penn State Dickinson School of Law, J.D., graduated 1990
  • Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Juris Doctorate
  • Union College (Barbourville), Bachelor of Science
Bar Admissions
  • New York, 1990
  • Pennsylvania, 1990
  • New Jersey, 1989
  • District of Columbia, 1991
  • Florida, 1994
Court Admissions
  • US Patent & Trademark Office

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Copyright Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Copyright Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Copyright Law, Pittsburgh (2023)
  • Copyright Law, Pittsburgh (2020)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Copyright Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Trademark Law
Awards:
  • Best Lawyers in America 2019 Copyright & Trademark Law

Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Trade Secrets Law

Publications

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