Profile

At a glance

Salvador “Sal” M. Bezos is a patent attorney in Washington, D.C., and a Director in the Electronics Practice Group at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox. An electrical and computer engineer by training (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech), he has spent more than twenty years preparing and prosecuting US and international patents and handling post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, for patent owners and challengers alike. He works in English and Spanish.

Technical focus: user interfaces, financial software, cloud computing and distributed systems, 3D printing, automotive, networking, databases, computer architecture.

Known for

• Prosecution informed by the PTAB. Years on both sides of inter partes review shape how he drafts and argues applications — claims and specifications written for the challenge they may one day face.
• Opinions of counsel on validity and freedom to operate where a financing, listing or transaction turns on them, including portfolio work supporting a Hong Kong stock-exchange listing.
• Spanish-language practice. Direct work with companies and IP firms in Latin America and Spain entering the US patent system — strategy, inventor interviews and examiner practice without an interpreter in between.
• AIPLA. Chair (2022–2024) and previously Vice Chair of the PTAB Trial Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association; a drafter of AIPLA comment letters on USPTO rulemaking; frequent speaker on PTAB topics.
• Pro bono leadership. Chair of his firm’s Pro Bono Committee, which under his tenure expanded into immigration matters — habeas petitions reuniting families, U visas for survivors of violence, DACA renewals, bond hearings for detained immigrants. Board of Directors, Legal Aid Justice Center.
• Teaching. Adjunct professor of patent drafting at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, 2012–2022 (Law 351, Patent Writing Theory and Practice).

Recognition and service

• Super Lawyers, Rising Star — Washington, D.C., 2018–2021
• Former Board of Directors, Computer CORE (adult technical literacy, Northern Virginia)
• Former Chair, Technology and Engineering Education Advisory Board, Fairfax County Public Schools
• Contributing author, Patent Office Litigation (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

Credentials

J.D., George Mason University School of Law (Intellectual Property Law Track) · M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology · B.S., Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech. Admitted: Virginia; District of Columbia; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Supreme Court of the United States.

Elsewhere

• Firm biography — the official one, with contact details
• LinkedIn — where the notes get discussed
• Notes — longer-form, here, in English and Spanish
• Resume and Coursework — the long version, and the path for anyone following it
• BezosWorx — the umbrella for personal projects: de-clouding.com, offpeak.tools, the maker shop, and GitHub
• Causes — the organizations he serves and supports