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Stephen J. Weyer

Alexandria, VA

703-837-3908

Steve Weyer is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group and a registered U.S. Patent Attorney with a background in biochemistry. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution and strategic intellectual property counseling, with particular emphasis on U.S. and international design patent preparation and protection, as well as utility patent prosecution across a broad range of technologies, including biotechnology, chemistry, clean technology, and computer implemented inventions. Mr. Weyer has extensive experience advising clients on the development and management of global intellectual property portfolios including trademark prosecution and portfolio management, as well as supporting litigation and providing opinions on patentability, freedom to operate and related matters. He is also active in the international IP community through leadership roles and regularly writes and speaks on intellectual property topics.

Capabilities

Practice Areas

Biotechnology/Life Sciences

Copyrights

Intellectual Property & Technology

Intellectual Property Litigation

Patent Prosecution & Protection

Sustainability & Emerging Technology

Telecommunications, Technology & Internet Law

Trademarks

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

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presenter & workshop facilitator, ITechLaw 2019 World Conference, Boston, Mass., May 15-17, 2019

The Role of Intellectual Property in Servitized Technology

co-presenter, ITechLaw 2015 World Conference, San Diego, Calif., April 29-May 1, 2015

Episode I: 'IP and Innovation: Are we heading for Star Trek or Star Wars as Science Fiction becomes Science Fact?'

2014 European Conference, ITechLaw, October 17, 2014

High court ruling leaves open questions on software patent eligibility

contributor, by Kimberly Atkins, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, June 24, 2014

US Supreme Court Finds Computer Implemented Method and System Claims Directed to “Fundamental Economic Practice” is a Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea

,with Jeffrey A. Haeberlin, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, June 20, 2014

Eyewitness Insights – U.S. Supreme Court on Patentability of Computer Implemented Methods

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 2, 2014

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Myriad and Other Biotech Judicial Opinions

ITechLaw Webinar, co-presenter with Alvin Fashu-Kanu, M.S., J.D., December 12, 2013

OP-IP Law Blog

co-creator and author, specifically directed to discussing IP topics with business people in a clever, witty, and entertaining manner

Is the Patent System Necessary for, or Detrimental to, Innovation and Economic Development of High Tech, IT and Software Technologies?

ITechLaw 2013 European Conference, co-presented with Dr. Julian Potter, October 3, 2013

Do you really own it? Copyrights in the Age of Cloud Computing

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Face to Face networking event, February 29, 2012

One final lap on the fast track to clean tech U.S. patent protection

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Client Alert, December 19, 2011

U.S. Intellectual Property Protection for Designs

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, September 29, 2011

Web 2.0 . . . Business Friend or Foe?

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Face to Face networking event, Alexandria, Va., May 25, 2011

Biotechnology fuels drive for economic development

Medical News, May 1, 2011

Fast track to Clean tech US Patent protection gets green light to expand

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Client Alert, November 27, 2010

Business Law

University of Phoenix, teacher and faculty facilitator for both online as well as more traditional classroom instruction

On the Webfront

Contributor and participant in blog and weekly podcast dedicated to discussing topics pertinent to start-up technology companies, web sites, and software designers

Protect Method of Doing Business

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, January 1, 2007

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

article

Bar Admissions

Indiana (inactive)

Ohio

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

U.S. Supreme Court

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Firm Leadership

Office of General Counsel, Member

Recruiting Committee, Alexandria Office, Member

Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

American Bar Association

Ohio State Bar Association

Virginia Biotechnology Association (VaBIO)

International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw)

  • Substantive Law Intellectual Property Committee (past-Chairman)
  • Conference Steering Committee Member

Community Involvement

So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E.), Volunteer

University of Dayton School of Law, Program in Law and Technology, Advisory Council

University of Buffalo Ambassador Program, D.C. Region Captain

Education

J.D.,

1997

University of Dayton School of Law

Org / Honor

University of Dayton Intellectual Property Law Journal

Biebel & French Patent Law Award, 1997

VITA (Volunteer income tax assistance)

Graduated top 30%

B.A., Biochemistry,

1991

cum laude

State University of New York at Buffalo

Org / Honor

Golden Key Honor Society

Dean’s List

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 meningitidis,” 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.

Mr. Weyer is the ITechLaw Intellectual Property Committee immediate past Chairman. 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.

Mr. Weyer enjoys outdoor recreational activities including cycling, kayaking, backyard basketball and taking his energetic chocolate Labrador (“Tobie”) for runs along the Potomac River and 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.

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