Scott A. McKeown

OS_mckeown

Partner –Post Grant Patent Practice Group
Tel  (703) 412-6297
Fax  (703) 413-2220
smckeown@oblon.com [send email]

SCOTT A. McKEOWN is a partner in the firm’s Post Grant Patent Practice Group focusing on post-grant counseling and USPTO procedures, litigation and related prosecution issues. He leads the Post Grant team responsible for electronics, wireless communications, software and computer-related inventions and business methods.

Mr. McKeown handles all aspects of post-issuance proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) including patent reissue applications, supplemental examination, ex parte and inter partes patent reexamination proceedings, Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Review, appeals to the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). He offers his clients comprehensive post-grant patent counseling including guidance regarding post grant USPTO proceedings concurrent with complex ITC and district court litigations. As the lead post grant counsel to some of the largest corporations in the world, Mr. McKeown has successfully recovered numerous patent portfolios from adversarial post grant proceedings valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mr. McKeown is editor of www.PatentsPostGrant.com, regularly contributing insights and commentary on existing and proposed USPTO post-grant mechanisms, trends, practice tips and news and CLE events relating to USPTO post grant proceedings. He lectures and writes extensively on these topics and is a member of the teaching faculty of the Practicing Law Institute (PLI). Currently, Mr. McKeown serves as Vice-chair of the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section Committee 104 (Post Grant USPTO Proceedings)

A former electrical engineer, he has worked with a wide range of technologies, including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols and network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing, and consumer electronics. In the telecommunication arts, Mr. McKeown has worked extensively with IP routing and signaling protocols, ATM and wireless communication protocols. He also has a broad breadth of experience with OFDM systems, CDMA, TDMA, FSK, QAM and the 802.11 family of protocols.

In the consumer electronic arts, Mr. McKeown’s practice has a strong focus in audio and video processing and display technologies, discs, signal compression and encoding schemes, recording medium formatting and construction, and related technologies.

Mr. McKeown received his Law degree from Temple University School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Temple University with honors.

Mr. McKeown is admitted to the Pennsylvania and Virginia State Bars and is registered to practice before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Mr. McKeown is also a board member of the Temple University College of Engineering Board of Visitors. 

Related News, Articles & Presentations

Speaking Events

2012

  • USPTO New Rules of Practice for Ex Parte Appeals: Change & Simplification for 2012 (PLI) Webinar, January 9, 2012
  • Post-Issuance Activities and Enforcement of Patents under the America Invents Act. AIPLA, Live Webinar January 12, 2012
  • Post Grant Proceedings 2012 — The New Patent Litigation Practicing Law Institute (PLI). New York, NY. Feb. 3, 2012 (Chair)
  • Salvaging Patents With Supplemental Examination — Strafford Legal, February 14th 2012
  • USPTO Procedures Under the America Invents Act — American Conference Institute (ACI) New York, NY. March 26th-27th 2012

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