Scott D. Stimpson is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross
Intellectual Property Practice Group and is resident in the Firm’s New York
office. Mr. Stimpson has practiced intellectual property litigation and
counseling for 28 years, involving a wide range of IP issues including patents,
trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He has significant trial (jury and
nonjury), arbitration and mediation experience. He has successfully litigated
many patent infringement and other technology cases, serving as lead litigation
counsel in numerous matters. Mr. Stimpson’s litigation experience has involved
technologies such as medical and other mechanical devices, semiconductors,
cameras, cell phones, flash memories, chemical compositions, biotechnology and
computer science.
Mr. Stimpson’s licensing and counseling work has similarly
involved a wide range of technical disciplines and clients. Mr. Stimpson also
has significant experience in general commercial litigation, including causes
of action such a breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and other state and
federal claims. He is a Registered Patent Attorney.
Apart from his experience representing American clients, Mr.
Stimpson has also served as lead counsel for clients in Japan, China and
Korea. Mr. Stimpson has lectured on American patent litigation, giving
presentations in the United States, Asia and Australia.
Prior to joining Sills Cummis & Gross, Mr. Stimpson was an
equity partner in Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ Litigation and Intellectual
Property Practices where he was lead counsel in numerous litigations and had
considerable jury and non-jury trial experience. Prior to that, he was an
equity partner at Pennie & Edmonds where he chaired the Mechanical
Technologies Group.