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Steven W. Peters, Ph.D.

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  • Steven W. Peters, Ph.D.
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Dr. Peters is a student associate in the Electronics Group. At Sterne Kessler he has been involved in dozens of post-grant proceedings, representing both patent owners and petitioners in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. In 2016, Dr. Peters was counsel on more post-grant proceedings than any other patent agent, and was listed as #32 among all practitioners by Docket Navigator. Dr. Peters also serves on the communications committee of the PTAB Bar Association, regularly contributing to the association’s bi-weekly Roundup newsletter.

His technical background is in wireless communications, and specifically on physical layer technologies such as MIMO, OFDM, and turbo coding. Prior to joining Sterne Kessler, he was co-founder and president of Kuma Signals, coordinating wireless research and development contracts with a variety of public and private entities. He also served as a technical advisor for LTE and WiMAX-related patent matters.

He is the recipient of the 2013 Best Paper Award from the European Association of Signal Processing (EURASIP) Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and his publications on wireless broadband standards, relays, and interference have received numerous citations by other researchers.

Dr. Peters is a student member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Eta Kappa Nu, and IEEE.

Journal Articles
  • O. El Ayache, S. W. Peters, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``The Practical Challenges of Interference Alignment'', IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 35--42, 2013.
  • R. W. Heath, Jr., S. W. Peters, Y. Wang, and J. Zhang, ``A Current Perspective on Distributed Antenna Systems for the Downlink of Cellular Systems'', IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 161--167, 2013.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``User Partitioning for Less Overhead in MIMO Interference Channels'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 592-603, 2012.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Cooperative Algorithms for MIMO Interference Channels'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 206-218, 2011.
  • A. Y. Panah, K. T. Truong, S. W. Peters, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Interference Management Schemes for the Shared Relay Concept'', EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 269817, 14 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2011/269817.
  • O. El Ayach, S. W. Peters, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``The Feasibility of Interference Alignment over Measured MIMO-OFDM Channels'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 4309-4321, 2010.
  • S. W. Peters, A. Y. Panah, K. T. Truong, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Relay Architectures for 3GPP LTE-Advanced'', EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2009, Article ID 618787, 14 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/618787. Received 2013 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking best paper award..
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``The Future of WiMAX: Multihop Relaying with IEEE 802.16j'', IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 104-111, Jan. 2009.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Nonregenerative MIMO Relaying with Optimal Transmit Antenna Selection'', IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 421-424, 2008.
Conference Papers
  • I. Santamaria, O. Gonzalez, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. W. Peters, ``Maximum Sum-Rate Interference Alignment Algorithms for MIMO Channels'', Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2010.
  • R. C. Daniels, S. W. Peters, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Augmenting Commercial Wireless Transceivers with Time-of-Arrival Positioning'', Proc. IEEE/ION PLANS 2010, Palm Springs, CA, May 4-6, 2010.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Orthogonalization to Reduce Overhead in MIMO Interference Channels'', (invited) Proc. International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS), Zurich, Switzerland, March 3-5, 2010.
  • O. El Ayach, S. W. Peters, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Real World Feasibility of Interference Alignment Using MIMO-OFDM Channel Measurements'', Proc. IEEE MILCOM, Boston, MA, October 18-21, 2009.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Interference Alignment Via Alternating Minimization'', Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 2445-2448, April 19-24, 2009.
  • S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Switching Between Antenna Selection and Spatial Multiplexing in the Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relay Channel'', (invited) Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 26-29, 2008.
  • R. C. Daniels, K. Mandke, S. W. Peters, S. M. Nettles, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Machine Learning for Physical Layer Link Adaptation in Multiple-Antenna Wireless Networks'', Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, San Francisco, CA, September 2008, 1st Place Prize in Demo Contest.
  • S. W. Peters and R. L. Rogers, ``A Local Stopping Criterion for Block Turbo Codes'', IEEE Sarnoff Symposium student entry, Princeton, NJ, April 30-May 2, 2007. 

 

  • Ericsson Inc. et al. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2015-01872—Successfully defended all claims on Final Written Decision; served as backup counsel to Patent Owner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at depositions.
  • Ericsson Inc. et al. v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC, IPR2015-01367—Successfully defended all claims on Final Written Decision; served as backup counsel to Patent Owner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at oral argument and depositions.
  • Global Tel*Link Corp. v. Securus Inc., IPR2015-01219—Successfully challenged validity of all claims; served as backup counsel to Petitioner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at oral argument and depositions.

  • Representative Matters
      • Ericsson Inc. et al. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2015-01872—Successfully defended all claims on Final Written Decision; served as backup counsel to Patent Owner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at depositions.
      • Ericsson Inc. et al. v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC, IPR2015-01367—Successfully defended all claims on Final Written Decision; served as backup counsel to Patent Owner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at oral argument and depositions.
      • Global Tel*Link Corp. v. Securus Inc., IPR2015-01219—Successfully challenged validity of all claims; served as backup counsel to Petitioner, primary drafter of all briefs and second chair at oral argument and depositions.

  • Admissions

      • United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Education

    • J.D. candidate (2020), The George Washington University Law School

    • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

    • M.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

    • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology with high honors

    • B.S., Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology with high honors

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