Scott A. McKeown

Oblon Spivak

SCOTT A. MCKEOWN is a partner in the firm’s Electrical/Mechanical Practice Group focusing on client counseling, litigation and patent prosecution. Mr. McKeown is also a team leader of the Reissue and Reexamination Practice Group, handling technologies including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols and network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing, and consumer electronics.

A significant portion of Mr. McKeown’s work involves post grant proceedings, including patent Reissue practice, Ex Parte, and Inter Partes patent reexamination. Mr. McKeown has worked extensively in the patent reexamination area as the USPTO’s Central Reexamination Unit has become a more common alternative to traditional litigation based validity challenges. In this capacity, he has worked and counseled Patent Holder’s on the strategic benefits of patent reexamination, as well as third party requestors. Mr. McKeown lectures and writes extensively on the topic of post grant proceedings at the USPTO, and is a founder of the legal blog PatentsPostGrant.com.

In the telecommunication arts, Mr. McKeown has worked extensively with IP routing and signaling protocols, ATM and wireless communication protocols. He 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 many other related technologies. In this regard, Mr. McKeown works directly with standard setting organizations and patent pools and has successfully advocated the inclusion of his client’s IP into patent pools. Additionally, he has counseled open source communities on third party IPR issues and standard setting.

Gene Quinn

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Gene is a US Patent Attorney, Law Professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam.

Gene’s particular specialty as a patent attorney is in the area of strategic patent consulting, patent application drafting, patent prosecution and technology licensing. He has worked with independent inventors and start-up businesses in a variety of different technology fields. His technical specialty is with software, computer related inventions and Internet applications and methods.

Gene is also known by many as “The IPWatchdog.” Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had millions of unique visitors. At least in part due to the notoriety he developed through IPWatchdog.com, Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, Popular Mechanics, CNN Money, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Trevor Carter

Baker & Daniels

Trevor Carter is a partner at Baker & Daniels. He concentrates his practice on patent litigation and counseling clients on patent matters. He has litigated patent cases on medical devices, software, Internet technology, consumer electronics and mechanical devices in federal courts throughout the United States, including California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Trevor also provides opinions to clients on non-infringement and invalidity.

Before practicing law, Trevor was a project engineer and maintenance foreman for Marathon Oil Company and a cooperative education student engineer for McDonnell Douglas.

Scott M. Daniels

Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

Scott M. Daniels is a partner in the Washington D.C. intellectual property law firm of Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP. He is a graduate of Carleton College and Cornell Law School.

Mr. Daniels is the author of “Recent CAFC Trends” (JIPA Program, 2005), “Every Rule Has its Exception: Interpreting Transition Terms” (2004), “Novelty and Nonobviousness” (NGB Program, 1997) and “Protecting U.S. Intellectual Property Rights at the ITC”, (Hatsumei Kokai, 1989). He is co-author of “The Application of KSR to Pharmaceutical Cases, (Patent, Vol. 6, May 2008); “Why Wait for Oppositions?” (IDEA, vol. 47, No. 3, 2007) and “Essentials of Drafting U.S. Patent Specifications and Claims (2000).

Mr. Daniels is one of the founders and contributors of Reexamination Alert, a blog focused primarily on post-patent grant problems.

Jack O’Brien

Law Offices of John A. O’Brien, P.C.

Jack O’Brien founded the Law Offices of John A. O’Brien, P.C. in 2007. He brings to the firm over 40 years experience in complex electronics, digital processing, software, communications, information and imaging technologies, semiconductors, copiers, printers and other electrical equipment. He has tried patent cases, both jury and non-jury, in the Federal Courts, and has argued appeals in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. O’Brien has been involved in all phases of international licensing and counseling, as well as in the patent prosecution and patent interference proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.