Scott Pivnick is a trial and appellate lawyer in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group in the Washington, D.C. office. He is an internationally recognized leader of trial teams litigating a broad range of intellectual property disputes that cover numerous technologies in both district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as concurrent inter partes review proceedings. He also has substantial experience arguing appeals at the Federal Circuit.
Scott is adept at coordinating global, multifront patent litigations involving some of the world’s leading companies. He has handled patent litigation for foreign and domestic companies in numerous technical areas, including motor vehicles and their components, website design, computer networking, fiber-optic communications equipment, Wi-Fi and mobile telephones, medical devices, oil and gas drilling, drilling chemicals, consumer goods, financial services, and RFID tracking. He also has extensive experience in trademark and unfair competition matters. He also serves as head of the firm’s Israel practice team.
Scott has been named an “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property and a global leader in patent law by the IAM Patent 1000 for each of the past six years.
Previously, Scott worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also taught patent litigation and trademark courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law.
