Steven M. McHugh

Steven M. McHugh is a Middletown, Connecticut, partner who handles intellectual property law for companies, startups, small businesses, innovators, and creative professionals. His practice includes patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, enforcement, defense, licensing, infringement matters, due diligence, right-to-use studies, and validity opinions. He prepares and prosecutes US and international patent applications and helps clients manage IP portfolios in ways that support protection, efficiency, and business value.

McHugh earned a J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2001. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on electromagnetics and physical electronics, from the University of Connecticut in 1994. His engineering background supports a technical IP practice involving complex inventions, patent claims, prosecution strategy, and portfolio planning. That training helps him understand client technologies and explain legal options in practical terms.

McHugh drafts and prosecutes patent applications involving electrical, computer, and mechanical systems, medical devices, and exercise or sports equipment. His technical experience includes computer hardware and software, laboratory instrumentation, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, microfluidic devices, signal processing, automotive power systems, medical imaging, LASER applications, metallurgy, compressor systems, dispensing systems, and exercise device communication methods. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as an electrical engineer for major technology and manufacturing companies.

Steven M. McHugh is admitted in Connecticut, the US District Court for the District of Connecticut, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Before joining his current practice, he owned his own law firm for about 22 years and practiced with national and international IP firms. McHugh helps clients protect inventions, brands, creative work, and technology assets through focused IP guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Halloran & Sage LLP
• Member, Connecticut Bar Association

Licensed State

• Connecticut

Education

• Quinnipiac University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Connecticut
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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