Stephen J. Weyer
Steve Weyer is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. A Registered U.S. Patent Attorney and trained as a biochemist, Mr. Weyer has diverse experience in patent prosecution, including cases involving biology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmaceutics, life sciences, bioinformatics, laser and optics, semiconductor manufacturing, light electrical, business methods applications and industrial design protection as well as related patent matters. His current focus includes substantial design patent preparation and prosecution, both U.S. domestic and international design registration and on utility patent matters in biochemical and biotechnological arts, chemical, clean technology, computer implemented inventions, as well as intellectual property litigation and opinion work.
Precision/Personalized Medicine and Intellectual Property: Balancing Public Health and Innovation
presenter & workshop facilitator, ITechLaw 2019 World Conference, Boston, Mass., May 15-17, 2019
The Role of Intellectual Property in Servitized Technology
Office of General Counsel, Member
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
University of Dayton School of Law
University of Dayton Intellectual Property Law Journal
Biebel & French Patent Law Award, 1997
VITA (Volunteer income tax assistance)
Graduated top 30%
cum laude
State University of New York at Buffalo
Golden Key Honor Society
Dean's List
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.
The Evolution of "Hybrid": Post-COVID Collaborative Working
Stephen Weyer takes a look at what the word "hybrid" means in today's world in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.
How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
Article written by Alexandria attorney Stephen Weyer for Law360 taking a look at dynamic project management.
PTAB Axes Bulk Of Possible Cancer Treatment Patent In PGR
Law360 (March 20, 2020, 4:47 PM EDT) -- The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated the overwhelming majority of claims Hybrigenics SA challenged in a Forma Therapeutics Inc. patent for a potential cancer treatment for lack of written description support, while at the same time upholding a single claim.
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US Supreme Court Finds Computer Implemented Method and System Claims Directed to “Fundamental Economic Practice" is a Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea
Eyewitness Insights - U.S. Supreme Court on Patentability of Computer Implemented Methods
Do you really own it? Copyrights in the Age of Cloud Computing
Who really owns the material that you put onthe web? Stites & Harbison PLLC attorneys Mari-Elise Taube and Stephen Weyer help define what copyright is, what rights you do and do not have when is comes to the things you put on the web.
One final lap on the fast track to clean tech U.S. patent protection