LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney Nick Stewart to its Louisville, Ky., office.

Stewart is a registered patent attorney in the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. His practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in the mechanical, medical and software fields in both the U.S. and abroad. Before joining the firm, he was a patent agent and attorney for more than three years at a boutique intellectual property firm in Mobile, Ala.

Stewart earned a J.D., cum laude, from West Virginia University College of Law and his B.S., cum laude, in Biotechnology with a minor in Physics from Marshall University. He is currently working on his B.S. in Computer Science from Auburn University. While at law school, he was president of the West Virginia Intellectual Property Association and the Executive Publications Editor for Volume 118 of the West Virginia Law Review. Also during law school, he worked within the intellectual property department of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical producers for two years. He is admitted to practice in Virginia and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.