Scott A. McKeown — Partner and Chair of Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) Practice at Ropes & Gray

Mr. Scott A. McKeown has been Chair of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Practice and Partner at Ropes & Gray LLP since August 15, 2017. Mr. McKeown is one of the nation's most experienced counsel in post-grant proceedings. He joined Ropes & Gray LLP from Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., where he was a member of the management committee and chair of the post-grant patent practice group, which focuses on post-grant counseling, litigation and related prosecution issues. He is the most active PTAB trial attorney in the U.S. having personally handled over 150 PTAB trial proceedings since 2012, including those in which more than half a billion dollars was at stake. He also has significant appellate experience in PTAB appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. McKeown is lead post-grant counsel to some of the world's most well-known innovators. As a former electrical engineer, he has a deep understanding of a wide range of technologies, including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols and network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing and medical devices. Mr. McKeown also maintains an award-winning blog which examines developments in patent litigation, including issues related to USPTO post issuance proceedings. Mr. McKeown has been recognized as a leading PTAB practitioner by various publications, including Chambers USA, Legal 500, The National Law Journal, Intellectual Asset Management and Best Lawyers in America. In 2017, he was named as the Litigator of the Year in Virginia by Managing Intellectual Propertyfor his successes before both courts and administrative bodies in high value patent disputes. Outside of his PTAB practice, he is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches the course on post-grant patent proceedings. Mr. McKeown received his J.D. from Temple University School of Law and his B.S. in electrical engineering, with honors, from Temple University.