Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Steve Weyer is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. A Registered Patent Attorney and trained as a biochemist, Mr. Weyer has diverse experience in patent prosecution, including cases involving chemistry, biology, biochemistry, laser, optics, semiconductor manufacturing, light electrical and business methods applications as well as related patent matters.  His current focus is on patent matters in biochemcial and biotechnological arts, chemical, lean technology, and computer implemented inentions, as well as intellectual property litigation anhd opinion work..

Recent Assignments

• Assisted Marv Petry in winning an award of $70,000 for attorneys' fees and costs after successfully defending a patent infringement claim in December 2003
• Pre-approved for appointment as Outside Counsel to the State of Ohio for Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

• "One final lap on the fast track to clean tech U.S. patent protection," Stites & Harbison Client Alert, December 19, 2011
• "U.S. Intellectual Property Protection for Designs," Client Presentation, September 29, 2011
• "Web 2.0 . . . Business Friend or Foe?," Podcast, June 15, 2011
• "Biotechnology fuels drive for economic development," co-author with Mari-Elise Taube and Michael K. Kim, Medical News, May 2011
• "Fast track to clean tech US patent protection gets green light to expand," October 27, 2010
• "Perspectives from the Experts on U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Kappos," Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), co-author with Donald R. Andersen, Jeffrey A. Haeberlin and Professor Tim Holbrook, Emory University School of Law, August 17, 2010
• Teaches business law through University of Phoenix where he is a faculty facilitator for both online as well as more traditional classroom instruction
• Contributor and participant in blog and weekly podcast, "On the Webfront," dedicated to discussing topics pertinent to start-up technology companies, web sites, and software designers
• "Can I Protect my Method of Doing Business?," Financial Institutions Advisor, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2004
• "Compulsory Licensing Proposal for Surgical and Medical Procedure Patents"

Before Stites & Harbison

Mr. Weyer worked as a Molecular Biology Research Assistant at the University of Buffalo where he performed laboratory techniques including DNA sequencing, restriction mapping, monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production, bacterial metabolic analysis, purifying proteins and western analysis. He also co-authored two publications: Quinn, M.L., Weyer, S.J., Lewis, L.A., Dyer, D.W., Wagner, P.M., "Insertional inactivation of the gene from the menigococcal lactoferrin binding protein," Microb. Pathog. 17(4): 227-37, Oct. 1994; and, Wagner, P.M., Weyer, S.J. and Dyer, D.W., "Iron Uptake from Transferrin by Neisseria meningitdis," Annual meeting, American Society for Microbiology, 1993

Mr. Weyer was also the Director of Operations and an advanced E.M.T. at Baird Point Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Inc., an Advanced Life Support Ambulance company which served the University of Buffalo community.

More Than Stites & Harbison

Mr. Weyer is a member of the American Chemical Society, including its division of biochemical technology (BIOT).  He volunteers as a coordinator of S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat), a local Washington D.C. "soup kitchen" and is active in the civic projects of the University of Dayton Alumni Association, Washington, D.C., Chapter.  He is the regional captain for the University of Buffalo D.C. Ambassador Program coordinating other local alumni to recruit high school students to attend the University, and he is a member of the Advisory Board in the Law and Technology Program at the University of Dayton Law School.

Besides Stites & Harbison

Mr. Weyer enjoys outdoor recreational activities including cycling, kayaking, backyard basketball and taking his energetic yellow Labrador for runs along the Potomac river on the George Washington parkway bike path, as well as less "extreme" activities such as maintaining yard and landscaping around his home. He also enjoys strumming on his acoustic guitar and homebrewing.