Scott Daniels is a partner in the Washington, DC, firm of Westerman, Hattori, Daniels and Adrian, LLP, and is the author of the firm’s US PTO Litigation Blog. Daniels has over 30 years of experience in the areas of patent litigation, particularly litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He now leads the litigation and reexamination groups at WHDA.

Daniels is admitted to the District of Columbia, 1978; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982; U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, 1978; U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1980; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1978. He is also a registered patent attorney, admitted to practice before U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 1987.

Scott’s Articles on IPWatchdog.com

• In re Jeffrey Hubbell: An Inventor Changing Jobs Creates Double Patenting Problem
• Privateering: Patent Holding Companies Unleash Patent Portfolios
• Do Patent Applicants have a Chance at the CAFC?
• Patent Owner Unwired Planet Pursues Apple, RIM in District Court After Losing First Round at ITC
• Can Patent Related Press Releases Be a Tortious Act?
• CAFC: PTO Has Power to Reexamine Already Adjudicated Patents
• A Winning Patent Infringement Defense: Reexamination Creates Intervening Rights, Erases $29.4 Million Verdict
• Stay Ordered: Paul Allen Patent Litigation Takes Abrupt Detour
• Microsoft Petitions PTO to Reverse Refusal to Grant Reexam in i4i Dispute, Could Moot Supreme Court Appeal
• Smucker Loses Reexam Battles, But May Win Litigation War
• Major Funai TV Patent, Once Held Valid by CAFC, Brought down in Reexamination
• Microsoft Files Another Reexam Against $290 Million i4i Patent
• Trial Judge Terminates Injunction After PTO Issues Advisory Action in Reexamination