Scott R Austin
Intellectual Property & Information Technology
Our Intellectual Property and Information Technology (IP) attorneys work closely with in-house counsel, executive leadership teams, and technical professionals to develop comprehensive programs focused on the procurement, counseling, protection, and enforcement of IP rights.
We help ensure that our clients understand the value of their IP and technology assets and counsel them towards maximizing the full value and benefits of these assets. Our attorneys conduct audits by implementing a thorough analysis of existing IP assets. This includes documentation of ownership and licenses and establishment of litigation positioning. We are extensively involved in the creation and management of international patent and trademark portfolios, utilizing the latest portfolio management software and electronic filing procedures. After measuring the strength and contribution of the IP assets to the company's long-term objectives, we develop proactive approaches to protect these intangible assets.
We counsel inventors, developers, and marketing professionals in entrepreneurial, regional, national, and international companies regarding all IP-related matters. We represent a wide range of clients in industries such as chemical, mechanical, and computer technologies; telecommunications; pharmaceuticals; manufacturing machinery; biochemicals; liquid crystal displays; electrical / electronic; fiber optics; polymers; logistics software; MEMs; circuit boards; medical devices; and materials testing equipment.
Our IP team integrates its undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics, chemistry, and chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering degrees, along with its associated legal experience, to maximize its understanding of the technical issues involved in IP matters. In addition, most of our attorneys are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Intellectual Property Litigation
Our Intellectual Property attorneys at Roetzel & Andress are experienced trial attorneys in the prosecution and defense of patent, trademark, trade dress, and copyright infringement actions in both local and federal courts and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Additionally, we handle arbitration, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
We represent a wide range of clients in industries such as chemical, mechanical, and computer technologies; pharmaceuticals; manufacturing machinery; biochemicals; liquid crystal displays; electrical/electronic; fiber optics; polymers; logistics software; telecommunications; circuit boards; medical devices; and materials testing equipment. Our attorneys possess a broad range of experience and education in physics and chemistry, as well as chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering.
Intellectual Property Law Certified Attorney - Florida Bar
Scott R Austin
Roetzel & Andress LPA
Las Olas Centre II #1150
350 E Las Olas Blvd
Fort Lauderdale FL 33301
Tel: 954 759-2768
Fax: 954 462-4260
E-mail: saustin@ralaw.com
Practice Areas:
- Intellectual Property & Information Technology
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Corporate and Business Services
- Health Law
- International Business
- International Trade
Mr. Austin combines technical thinking with a business approach to information technology and intellectual property matters. He has litigated trademark infringement cases in US district courts as well as appeals, oppositions and cancellation proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Austin's practice also includes litigation of technology and online privacy matters, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. He has resolved disputes under ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy as well as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999. In addition, he has computer programming experience and consults in software licensing, data breach response, privacy and defamation issues. He has handled such diverse areas of law as structuring Series LLCs for IP asset protection, as well as negotiating complex technology business deals and identifying valuable patent, trademark, domain name and computer software assets in bankruptcy for purchase by clients.
Mr. Austin is Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law by The Florida Bar. He has taught intellectual property law and business transactions law as an adjunct professor of law at Nova Southeastern University's Shepard Broad Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and taught corporation law at St. Thomas University Law School in Miami, Florida. Mr. Austin is a former two-term chair of The Florida Bar Business Law Section's Corporations, Securities and Financial Services Committee and an expert witness in Limited Liability Company Law. He also served as reporter for key Florida Bar legislative committees and formulated numerous legislative amendments to the Florida Limited Liability Company Act, which were adopted by the Florida Legislature.
Mr. Austin received an award from The Florida Bar for his work on the development of limited liability company law in Florida. As an associate editor on the Georgetown Law Review, Mr. Austin published his Note, "Advertising Regulation in the People's Republic of China, 15 Law & Policy in International Business 955" (1983) and served on the law journal's executive editorial board as Business Editor.
Industry Experience:
- Consumer Products
- Media
- Information & Emerging Technology
- Manufacturing
- Professional Services
- Retail
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
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