Press Release
Patent Attorney Ian Scott Joins Duane Morris' New York Office
April 3, 2006
NEW YORK, April 3, 2006 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Ian Scott, formerly of Jones Day LLP, has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Ian, a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group, is the second patent attorney to join Duane Morris in New York in the past month. James Markey, formerly of Winston & Strawn LLP, joined in late March. Ian is the eighth addition to the office in the past year.
Ian practices in the area of patent counseling, litigation and prosecution. He primarily focuses on pharmaceuticals, chemistry and chemical processes, medical devices, polymers and mechanical patents, and counsels clients on matters of patentability, invalidity, infringement, freedom-to-operate and priority of invention. Before becoming a lawyer, Ian was a Senior Chemist at E.M. Industries, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. He worked at E.M. Industries for nearly a decade, performing and supervising applied research and development. He is a member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, and is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ian earned his J.D. from Pace University School of Law in 1996. Prior to this, he received an M.S. in Chemistry from St. John's University in 1994. Ian, a native of Wales, graduated in 1988 with a B.Sc. in Chemistry, with honors, from University College Swansea, the University of Wales in the United Kingdom.
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