Tampa intellectual property attorney Stefan Stein first applied to the Florida Bar for specialty certification in the late 1990s. He would have preferred an intellectual property certification. But no such certification existed. So he instead applied for board certification in business litigation, of which IP is a sub-specialty. But Stein, an equity shareholder at Holland & Knight, may get a chance to apply this fall for a certification in his specialty niche. The Bar, after 18 months of debate among intellectual property lawyers of various kinds, has begun to take applications for two new certification committees. The two new board certifications are for the fields of intellectual property, and state and federal government and administrative practice.