Scott Alter

Scott, a Partner at Best & Friedrich LLP, is an experienced intellectual property attorney whose practice focuses on software, electronics, internet, medical device, telecommunications, cloud computing, financial, and semiconductor technologies. A skilled global patent strategist, he also has significant expertise in patent eligibility and other legal issues particularly affecting high-tech industries. In every matter he handles, Scott strives to obtain practical results for his clients.

Honors and notable positions Scott has achieved include:

• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business — Intellectual Property, 2012-15
• Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, 2014
• Super Lawyers® — Intellectual Property (Virginia), 2006; Intellectual Property (Washington, D.C.), 2007
• Chair, Post-Alice Task Force, American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
• Chair, Information Technology Division, American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
• Council Member (effective August 2015), American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law