Scott Gordon

He has a truly international practice, advising clients in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the Middle East, North Africa, Canada and the U.S. regarding international patent strategy matters. His practice is focused on international protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, with a special focus on patent litigation and patent prosecution. He has also counseled clients in matters involving intellectual property management and valuation. Scott is experienced in procurement and analysis of patent rights in the electronics, optics, semiconductor, information systems, telecommunications, computer software and medical device technology sectors.

Scott's patent litigation experience includes counseling clients through mediation, handling depositions, and providing strategic and technical analysis to clients. His patent prosecution experience includes preparation of U.S. and foreign patent applications and responding to office actions from the U.S. Patent Office. He has successfully guided patent applications through the administrative appeals process before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Additionally, Scott has been involved in inter partes and ex parte reexamination proceedings. His client counseling experience includes providing patent infringement analysis and opinions, providing prior art searches and patentability opinions and assisting clients with identifying potential niche markets within heavily patented technology sectors.

Prior to entering law school, Scott worked as a registered patent agent. He also worked as an electrical engineer for a major defense contractor. While working as an engineer, he designed and built several transportable satellite communications ground stations. He has experience in electrical, computer, mechanical and system engineering. During his graduate studies, Scott researched new designs for microwave diplexer filters and software methods for optimizing such filters. Scott's primary areas of focus in engineering include Digital Signal Processing (DSP), microwave device and antenna design, optics and semiconductor related microfabrication and nanotechnology.

Scott is proficient in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.