National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA)

Steve Thrasher is a Special Counsel of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies.

With over a decade in practice, Mr. Thrasher specializes in assisting small businesses and entrepreneurs with trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret, and open source issues.

Mr. Thrasher serves on the Advisory Board for the Dallas MIT Forum, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to the education of entrepreneurs and inventors.  He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as all courts in the State of Texas.  He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Intellectual Property Sections of the American Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association.  He has also authored many publications, and co-authored the software chapters of the “E-Copyright Law Handbook” by Aspen Publishing, the manual used by attorneys to answer their copyright questions.
Organizations as diverse as the University of Texas, Ericsson Telecommunications, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and over one hundred small companies and independent inventors have chosen to rely on Mr. Thrasher's skills.  Representative transactions include: closing favorable licenses, financing and mergers, in industries including consumer products, electronics, software, medical devices, and mining, in regions as geographically diverse as Chile, Bolivia, and Mexico.

Mr. Thrasher received M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Baylor University, and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Finance from Auburn University.  He completed additional studies in international law at The Queens’ College, Oxford University, England, and the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, in Mexico.  Prior to law school, he wrote avionics software for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation’s F-18 E/F strike-fighter.