Stephen Burbank

Stephen Burbank is a partner at Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP in Austin, Texas, with a practice focused on intellectual property litigation. A former law clerk for the Honorable Alan D. Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Burbank has developed a significant practice representing clients in patent infringement lawsuits in that district. His firm biography states that his experience covers a wide range of technologies, including consumer electronics, internet services, social networking, wireless communications, video games, and semiconductors.

Based on available information, Burbank’s patent work is primarily focused on defending operating companies. In his only tracked case, he served as local counsel for the defendant, Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc., in a patent infringement suit brought by Malikie Innovations Limited. This case involves patents related to elliptic curve cryptography, which the plaintiff, an entity that acquired patents from BlackBerry, alleges is used by bitcoin mining companies. While his firm profile mentions representing dozens of clients in patent litigation, specific case details are not widely publicized.

Burbank has been with Scott Douglass & McConnico for his entire career in private practice, having joined the firm in 2019 after his federal clerkship. There is no public record of him appearing in inter partes review (IPR) or other proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

He earned his J.D., summa cum laude, from Baylor Law School in 2018, where he was the managing executive editor of the Baylor Law Review. He graduated first in his class and achieved the highest score on the July 2018 Texas Bar Exam.