Scott Raymond Austin

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VLP Law Group LLP

Experience: 39 years

Intellectual Property and Trademarks

Florida, 11th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court

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My Practice: I can’t believe how lucky I am. At VLP we’ve managed to have the best of both worlds. You know that in any big organization, you’ll have a mix: a small percentage of stars, a large mass of solid performers, and a percentage who maybe should be in a different line of work. We’ve cherry-picked the stars from elite law firms, but haven’t taken on the staggering big firmoverhead. The result is I get to work with only the best, and our sane operating cost allowsboth you and us to do well financially. Our clients couldn’t be happier, and neither could I. My Experience: Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law by the Florida Bar. 32 years successfully representing Fortune 500 clients in disputes and transactions involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and information technology. Resolving domain name, content spoofing and phishing, copyright infringements, defamation and other technology disputes, arbitrating claims involving domain registratnts in the U.S., China, Japan, Korea and Europe (member, Panel of Neutrals, National Arbitration Forum, ICANN PICDRP Standing Panel). Advanced tech-trans negotiation and litigation, brand portfolio protection, management and licensing, including open source software. Practice Goals: To protect client interests online, minimize exposure to litigation and resolve disputes privately, effectively and efficiently; to help clients monetize and realize the economic utility of their inventions, brands and creative works. Bar and Court Admissions: U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida Florida: All State Courts Representative matters: Patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation; TTAB Opposition and Cancellation Proceedings; DMCA content takedowns; UDRP cybersquatting disputes; Removal of defamatory online content; TOS, TOU, Privacy Policy, COPPA compliance.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Florida

Since 1984

11th Circuit

Since 1986

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 2001

Professional Experience

2013 - Current

VLP Law Group LLP

Partner

SCOTT AUSTIN is a Florida Bar Board Certified intellectual property attorney representing clients for over 30 years in Florida and around the world in a variety of areas including patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright disputes, arbitration and tech transactions, with insight on both the technical (programming background) and business (two year MBA and business founder) aspects of intellectual property law. As a VLP lawyer Scott is different for another reason. VLP's technology-savvy partnership based in Silicon Valley enables him to be nimble, responsive, personable, and efficient, working closely with many accomplished partners and scalable support across the country, reducing the overhead burdens of bricks and mortar buildings and inter-office politics. As practical problem-solvers we thrive on client service. We will even consult at your office, via Skype or in person. Scott represents clients in trademark appeals, oppositions and cancellation proceedings before the TTAB. IP litigation in U.S. District Courts. Scott has published decisions as a National Arbitration Forum panelist in domain disputes under ICANN’s UDRP process. Scott also has years of counseling experience on advanced technology transactions, SaaS, cloud storage agreements, TOS, DMCA and privacy policy compliance. A former television producer/director and journalist Scott also served as interim in-house counsel for several clients. As their general counsel, he learned to provide senior management with timely answers on which they could firmly rely. Scott has taught intellectual property and corporate law nationally and internationally to law students in law school and practicing lawyers in numerous seminars, workshops and symposia. He chaired the Florida Bar’s Corporations, Securities and Financial Services Committee for two terms and received awards from the Florida Bar for his work on reforms to Florida’s Limited Liability Company Act, which were adopted by the Florida legislature.

Education

1981 - 1984

Georgetown University Law Center

J.D. (1984) | Intellectual Property, Tax, Securities, Antitrust

15 Law & Policy in International Business n/k/a The Georgetown Journal of International Law 955.

1979 - 1981

Ohio University

MBA (1981) | Finance, Economics, Marketing

Honors: Beta Gamma Sigma

1977 - 1979

Ohio University

B.S. (1979) | Journalism

Honors: Summa cum laude

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101 NE Third Avenue 101 NE Third Avenue Suite 1500 Fort Lauderdale FL 33301 Telephone: (954) 204-3744 Fax: (954) 320-0233

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Experience: 39 years

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Phone: (954) 204-3744

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Trademarks

Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

Languages

French: Written

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Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law

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