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• Alston & Bird LLP
• Ballard Spahr LLP

• Georgia
• United States Patent & Trademark Office

• Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire School of Law), LL.M. in Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology, 2007
• Georgia State University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1994
• Tennessee Technological University, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1986

Scott's practice is devoted to helping clients identify, protect, and generate value from their intellectual property rights.  He has worked with leading innovators at global Fortune 100 companies, major research universities, and high-tech startups, all of whom recognize that intellectual property rights represent a valuable and powerful intangible asset for businesses today.  Mr. Anderson brings a unique perspective to intellectual property matters because he has many years of experience in both patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation, including high-stakes patent litigation.  His practice also includes strategic counseling and pragmatic advice regarding patents, trade secrets, trademarks, domain names, and copyrights.

Mr. Anderson's patent practice includes infringement studies and opinions, freedom-to-operate opinions, and patentability analysis.  For patent-related disputes, his experience includes licensing and related agreements, patent portfolio analysis, competitive threat assessment, and design-around alternatives.

As a registered patent attorney since 2001, Mr. Anderson has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications for mechanical systems, medical devices, electronics and software, and computer-implemented business methods.  He has prosecuted patent applications covering major advances in aviation electronics, aircraft surveillance and collision avoidance, microscopic technology, relational database mathematics, orthopedic surgery and fracture fixation, laser-projected displays, fleet monitoring, and logistics-related business methods.  He also has experience with re-examinations, re-issue applications, and design patent applications.

Before attending law school, Mr. Anderson worked for five years as a consulting mechanical engineer.  He designed mechanical systems including industrial process piping control and instrumentation, heating and cooling, industrial ventilation, and automated assembly systems.

Presentations & Teaching Experience:

• Guest Lecturer - Introduction to Intellectual Property - College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (September 2010; presented to the engineering faculty and to all first-year engineering students)
• Guest Lecturer - Patent Drafting from a Litigator's Perspective - Mercer University College of Law (March 2010)
• Adjunct Professor of Law - Emory University School of Law (co-taught Computer Law; Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
• Graduate Teaching Fellowship - co-leader of The Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic - Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire School of Law) (2006-2007)

Amicus Briefs:

• Co-Author - Brief of Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic as Amicus Curiae - 2006 WL 2966599, KSR Int'l v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007)

Publications:

• J. Scott Anderson, Contributor - ABA Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments (2009)
• J. Scott Anderson - Green Claims and Trademark Law:  Is it False Advertising? - Ballard Spahr IP Intelligence Report (April 2009)
• T.J. DoVale, J. Scott Anderson & Greg Kirsch - The Landscape for Business Method and Software Patents Has Been Changed: In re Bilski – Atlanta CEO Counsel, Connections (2008)
• J. Scott Anderson & Greg Kirsch - Federal Circuit Rejects Signal Claims as Non-Statutory Subject Matter - Journal of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (U.K., November 2007)
• J. Scott Anderson - Painstaking Semantics:  Selecting Website Trade Dress Elements to Survive a Copyright Preemption Challenge - John Marshall Intellectual Property Law Journal (Fall 2007)
• J. Scott Anderson - State Sovereign Immunity for Claims of Patent Infringement - Pierce Law Review, Symposium (presented April 2007)
• J. Scott Anderson - The Research Tax Credit:  Reward True Innovators - The National Law Journal (an op-ed essay, July 2005)
• J. Scott Anderson, Bruce Rose, John Wasleff - The Value of Quality Patent Preparation and Prosecution Increases under Festo - The Electronic Banking and Commerce Report (2001)