Scott McKeown

Practice Areas

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

Post-Grant Proceedings

Litigation

Appellate Litigation

ITC Litigation

Career

Scott McKeown focuses his practice on post-grant patent counseling and litigation matters at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and related appeals to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Scott handles all aspects of post-issuance patent proceedings, with a particular focus on administrative trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), such as inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR). He also provides advice on USPTO post-grant proceedings concurrent with complex International Trade Commission (ITC) and district court litigations.

Named one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings by Intellectual Asset Management, Scott is one of the most active PTAB trial attorneys in the US, having handled more than 400 PTAB matters since 2012, including those in which more than $500 million was at stake. He currently serves as lead post-grant counsel to some of the world’s best-known innovators and has handled some of the most noteworthy PTAB trials to date, including the only precedential decision on live testimony. Moreover, he was named by Managing IP as its “Outstanding PTAB Litigator” in 2020.

Scott is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School and a Founding Director of the PTAB Bar Association. He lectures and writes extensively on PTAB proceedings and maintains the award-winning blog, PatentsPostGrant.com, which examines developments in patent litigation, including issues related to USPTO post issuance proceedings.

Prior to joining Wolf Greenfield, Scott chaired the PTAB group at an Am Law 10 law firm and was a shareholder in that firm’s intellectual property litigation practice.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Scott worked as an electrical engineer for a government agency, troubleshooting embedded systems and circuit designs. He also has experience across a wide range of related technologies, including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols, network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing, and consumer electronics.

Education