About Us
Our Company
Stellar Patent® was founded to provide clients with more control over the patenting process. Stellar Patent® allows clients to choose how much assistance we provide for each of their patenting needs. By allowing clients to choose how much Stellar Patent® assists them, clients can make the optimal choice between time they spend and money they spend when protecting their innovation with patents.
Stellar Patent® is based in Ellenboro, North Carolina, USA which is about 60 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina. Stellar Patent® has partners and clients around the world.
Our Team
Brian Downing
Founder, Stellar Patent®
Brian Downing is a patent agent, former patent examiner, electrical engineer, and software developer. Brian has worked with a variety of patent clients including a world leading consumer electronics company and a unicorn start-up backed by top tier venture capital (VC) firms. Brian especially enjoys working with start-ups, small and medium sized enterprises (SME), and independent inventors. Brian is passionate about helping inventors protect their cutting edge innovation with patents.
Brian’s patenting experience includes such examples as:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Consumer Electronics
- Electronic Circuits including integrated circuits (ICs)
- Software including Software as a Service (SASS) and web applications
- Medical software and medical devices
Being a former Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Brian uses his internal knowledge of the USPTO to efficiently work with the USPTO Patent Examiners.
Being an inventor himself, Brian enjoys helping inventors obtain patents and doing so as cost effectively as possible. Having been an R&D engineer for many years, Brian enjoys learning the technical details of inventions and helping inventors prepare their inventions for patenting along with working with the USPTO to get the patent application to issue into a patent.
Brian also provides inventors with patent training to enable inventors to better participate in the patenting process and to reduce the cost of obtaining patents.
