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SCOTT A. MCKEOWN is a partner in the firm's Electrical/Mechanical Practice Group focusing on client counseling, litigation and patent prosecution. Mr. McKeown is also a team leader of the Reissue and Reexamination Practice Group, handling technologies including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols and network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing, and consumer electronics. A significant portion of Mr. McKeown's work involves post grant proceedings, including patent Reissue practice, Ex Parte, and Inter Partes patent reexamination. Mr. McKeown has worked extensively in the patent reexamination area as the USPTO's Central Reexamination Unit has become a more common alternative to traditional litigation based validity challenges. In this capacity, he has worked and counseled Patent Holder's on the strategic benefits of patent reexamination, as well as third party requestors. Mr. McKeown lectures and writes extensively on the topic of post grant proceedings at the USPTO, and is a founder of the legal blog PatentsPostGrant.com. In the telecommunication arts, Mr. McKeown has worked extensively with IP routing and signaling protocols, ATM and wireless communication protocols. He has a broad breadth of experience with OFDM systems, CDMA, TDMA, FSK, QAM and the 802.11 family of protocols. In the consumer electronic arts, Mr. McKeown's practice has a strong focus in audio and video processing and display technologies, discs, signal compression and encoding schemes, recording medium formatting and construction, and many other related technologies. In this regard, Mr. McKeown works directly with standard setting organizations and patent pools and has successfully advocated the inclusion of his client's IP into patent pools. Additionally, he has counseled open source communities on third party IPR issues and standard setting. Mr. McKeown received his Law degree from Temple University School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Temple University with honors. Mr. McKeown is admitted to the Pennsylvania and Virginia State Bars and is registered to practice before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Related News, Articles & Presentations
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