Hovey Williams, LLP

Scott R. Brown

Scott is a partner with the firm and is the head of the litigation department.  He began his career in California’s Silicon Valley in 1990.  He moved to Kansas and joined Hovey Williams in 1999.  His practice includes all aspects of intellectual property creation, management, enforcement and licensing, with particular emphasis on intellectual property litigation. Scott has been a full time first chair trial lawyer since 1999, handling more than one hundred lawsuits in state and federal courts across the country in his career, both at trial and on appeal.

Scott has handled a variety of intellectual property litigations as lead trial counsel, including patent, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, copyright, and trade secret actions. He has significant expertise in patent infringement actions, representing plaintiffs and defendants in all aspects of such disputes. His experience includes a wide range of technologies, including digital and computer hardware, digital signal processing, software, agricultural implements, complex mechanical machines, medical devices, and chemical and bio-technology based disputes.  He has played a leading role in a variety of successful patent enforcement and licensing campaigns on behalf of the firm’s clients.

Scott also advises clients on infringement, validity and patentability opinions, trademark and trade dress disputes, IP licensing, and other IP related business decisions.

Scott has been selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a national trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers.

Education

• Santa Clara University School of Law—Juris Doctor, 1990
• University of California-Santa Barbara—Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1987

Memberships

• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• Association of Patent Law Firms (APLF), Member Board of Directors
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Missouri Bar Association (MoBar)
• Kansas Bar Association
• California Bar Association (CalBar)
• Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society

Bar Admissions

• Kansas, 2007
• Missouri, 2000
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2000
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit, 1995
• California, 1990

Representative Litigation Matters

• Obtained rare patent infringement preliminary injunction on behalf laser rangefinder technology partners against Chinese manufacturer and its U.S. distributors.  Case ended in favorable consent judgment after the Federal Circuit rejected motion to stay the injunction pending appeal.
• Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement with respect to repair defense on complex injection molding machines.  The Federal Circuit upheld the decision while establishing a significant new precedent in the law of repair and reconstruction.
• Obtained defense verdict at trial in partnership dissolution dispute respecting semiconductor packaging equipment.
• Represented large medical device company in multiple lawsuits enforcing exclusivity of patented design with respect to lifesaving feature of endotracheal tubes.
• Obtained summary judgment of infringement against manufacturer of pizza delivery warming devices.
• Represented large agricultural implements company in dispute respecting conditioner roller in combine harvester.
• Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement with respect to patent infringement claims against maker of programmable logic devices.