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Steven J. Keough joined SurModics as its Senior Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel in January 2004 and added the duties of Vice President and General Manager of the SurModics New Ventures business unit in April of that year which then became the Orthopedics Business Unit in August of 2005. Before joining SurModics, Keough practiced law at Minneapolis-based Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., where he was a senior member and past chairman of the intellectual property department. He previously served as president and co-founder of the intellectual property law firm Patterson & Keough. He also was manager of Asia-Pacific matters at the Minneapolis law firm of Merchant & Gould. Keough has 16 years of extensive business and legal experience involving medical technologies, technology transfer, strategic planning, licensing and high technology business management. Additionally, Keough is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has been admitted to practice law in Minnesota's Federal District Courts and before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Keough earned his law degree from Boston College, his master's degree in Congressional studies from the Catholic University of America and his bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy . | 