Stout, Uxa, & Buyan LLP

Patent | Trademark | Copyright | Intellectual Property Law

Protecting Your Intellectual Property

Protecting your intellectual property is critical to growing your business. Stout, Uxa & Buyan has the streamlined processes, proven experience, and exceptional track record that you can rely on to maximize and enforce your valuable intellectual property rights.

Our Practice

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Patent Law

Our attorneys have a broad range of technical experience in utility, design, and plant patents, and have successfully built cases that make and define the law.

Trademark Registration

Defending your brand is a key part of building your business, and our experienced professionals will ensure your success in registering and protecting your trademarks.

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International Protection

We have close relationships with overseas patent and trademark practitioners, enabling you to enjoy intellectual property protection in a global economy.

About Our Firm

Experts In The Field

Protecting your intellectual property is critical. Stout, Uxa & Buyan has the streamlined processes, qualified people, proven experience and an exceptional track record.

Patent Law Specialties

Biotechnology
Chemical
Mechanical
Medical Devices
Electrical

Exceptional Track Record

With offices in Laguna Hills, California, practitioners act exclusively in the area of patents and trademarks and become involved in cases that make and define the law.

Our Philosophy

The Law from the Client’s Perspective

Our firm is focused on protecting your business’s intellectual property interests, without the expensive frills. Each of our professionals have had significant technical and in-house intellectual property experience, and our firm knows intellectual property law from the clients’ side. Each member of our firm is a seasoned intellectual property attorney with years of experience in intellectual property law, and in strategically and cost-effectively evaluating our clients’ intellectual property interests; client counseling; patent and trademark preparation, prosecution and licensing; and U.S. and international patent and trademark portfolio management. We concentrate on the law, not the trappings.

Long-Term Relationships

At SUB we know that your success is our success; this is why we have represented so many of our clients for many years and decades. Despite our depth of experience, by keeping our overhead low we are able keep our fees reasonable, and in line with our clients’ expectations. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or an individual with a good idea, when we know your business and how your business objectives evolve over time we can anticipate and prepare for new innovations and new products with you, ensuring that your innovations and goodwill remain secure as you grow.

Excellence and Communication

Our professionals include former researchers, engineers, patent examiners, legal instructors and patent agents, as well as former corporate patent counsel. We handle inventions in a variety of technologies including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, computer data centers, consumer products (particularly in the food, home and personal care categories), environmental products, trade secret matters and licensing projects. Our firm places prime importance on close and frequent communication with our clients designed to optimize their intellectual property interests.

The Law Comes First

Our firm provides legal services for companies of various sizes and technologies, as well as individual inventors.

Honest Communication

Our firm provides legal services for companies of various sizes and technologies, as well as individual inventors.

Committed to Excellence

Our firm provides legal services for companies of various sizes and technologies, as well as individual inventors.

Our Partners

Donald E. Stout

Partner

Admitted to bar: 1990, California, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education: Houghton College (B.A., 1982); University of Delaware (B.M.E., 1982); George Washington University (J.D., 1990)

Additional Experience: Patent Examiner (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1982 – 1990)

Member: Orange County Bar Association; State Bar of California; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Orange County Patent Law Association; Christian Legal Society.

Robert Dean Buyan

Partner

Admitted to bar: 1985, Ohio, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1987, California; 1988, U.S. District Court, Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education: Gannon College (B.S., Biology, 1974); The Ohio State University; Capital University (J.D., 1985).

Additional Experience: Staff Member, Capital University Law Review, 1982-1983.

Member: Orange County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Orange County Patent Law Association.

Carlos A. Fisher

Partner

Admitted to bar: 1993, California; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education: Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1992, University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., Biological Sciences, 1981.

Additional Experience:
Articles Editor: Southwestern University Law Review 1991-1992.

Author: “Unfair Trade Practices in Biotechnology: The Legacy of In re Durden”, 21 Sw. U. L. Rev. 1103 (1992); “Platelet Factor 4 m-RNA Expression in Human Erythroleukemic Cells: Regulation by Phorbol Esters and Certain Cytokines”, 19 Experimental Hematology 779 (1991) (co-author).

Member: Orange County Patent Law Association, State Bar of California Intellectual Property Section.

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