Scott J. Pivnick

• Lead counsel representing a leading oil and gas service provider in a patent infringement suit against one of its competitors in the District of Minnesota in which the court ruled definitively for the first time that U.S. patent law applies to U.S.-flagged vessels operating outside U.S. territorial limits.
• Lead counsel representing one of the country’s largest fire truck manufacturers in a patent infringement matter against one of its main competitors in the Middle District of Florida.
• Represented a leading oil and gas service provider in a Federal Circuit appeal reversing a lower-court decision and finding personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant.
• Represented an international beverage maker in a Federal Circuit appeal affirming a finding of patent-ineligible subject matter.
• Lead counsel for a leading oil and gas service provider in a series of arbitrations against a competitor.
• Represented a refuse-truck manufacturer in defense of a patent infringement claim in the Northern District of Georgia.
• Representing a leading medical device maker in an infringement claim against its competitor in the District of Delaware.
• Represented numerous retailers in the Eastern District of Virginia in defense of patent infringement claims by nonpracticing entities and transferred the cases to the retailers’ home districts.
• Lead counsel in several patent infringement suits in the Eastern District of Texas brought by a leading oil field services company against some of its major competitors.
• Lead counsel defending one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies in defense of patent and unfair competition claims brought by one of its competitors in the District of Maryland.

Scott Pivnick is a trial lawyer and head of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group in the Washington, D.C. office. He has litigated a broad range of intellectual property disputes covering numerous technologies in both district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). He has substantial first- and second-chair litigation experience, including direct and cross-examination of fact and expert witnesses at trial and presenting oral arguments before the Federal Circuit, ITC, and trial-level courts. He has particular experience in coordinating global, multifront patent litigations involving some of the world’s leading companies. He is experienced in defending multidefendant patent infringement suits in the District of Delaware and the Eastern District of Texas and coordinating joint defense groups consisting of companies that would otherwise be competitors in the marketplace.

Scott is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property law and an adjunct professor at the Catholic University Law School, where he teaches a patent enforcement class.

Previously, Scott worked at an international law firm, as well as for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eric G. Bruggink of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Virginia
• Maryland

Education

• The George Washington University (J.D., 1995)
• University of Connecticut (B.A., 1992)

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