Practice
Scott Doyle is Chair of Shearman & Sterling’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and a partner in the Litigation Group.

Mr. Doyle has been lead counsel in several significant and successful IP litigations in courts throughout the United States. He has litigated cases including a wide range of technologies including telecommunications, computer hardware and software, photolithography machines, chemical compositions, medical devices, bar scanning devices, biotechnology, among others. Recently, Mr. Doyle led the Shearman & Sterling LLP team that won outright victory in federal district court by obtaining summary judgment and dismissal of all claims of patent infringement alleged against his clients Daimler Inc., Mercedes Benz USA, et al., after convincing the Court to change its two previous claim constructions. In another case, he got a Taiwanese designer/manufacturer and its U.S. client to cease and decist from manufacturing, importing and selling cable modems in the United States that included misappropriated trade secrets.

In addition to his intellectual property litigation experience, Mr. Doyle has worked on a wide range of technology-related transactions including buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, investments, patent portfolio sales, joint ventures, and all types of technology agreements. Previously, Mr. Doyle also played a significant business role in leading teams responsible for over 200 million dollars in deals including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures as a Senior Vice President at Liberty Media Inc. and its wholly owned affiliate Liberty Broadband.

As an electrical engineer with a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering prior to his legal and business roles, he designed and developed next-generation U.S. military satellite and terrestrial communications systems. During law school, Mr. Doyle consulted to SAIC in the development of prototype anomaly discrimination systems for communications networks using neural network technologies and worked in the General Counsel’s office at the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

• Victory on Summary Judgment for Daimler Inc., Mercedes Benz USA, et al., in the Central District of CA after obtaining summary judgment and dismissal of all claims of infringement alleged against his clients Daimler Inc., Mercedes Benz USA, et al., by convincing the Court to change two previous claim constructions and disallow amended contentions in a case involving three patents relating to diesel engine fuel injection technologies.
• Currently representing Daimler Inc. and Mercedes Benz USA in patent litigation in the District of New Jersey involving patents covering sleep deprivation technologies.
• Currently representing Mercedes Benz USA in patent litigations in the Eastern District of Texas and District of Minnesota involving patents covering in-vehicle location and other computer based technologies.
• Currently representing telecommunications provider Primus in two patent cases, both of which involve patents covering various aspects of VoIP and mobile technologies.
• Represented Nikon related entities in the United States in a patent litigation case in the District Court of Delaware that settled in 2011. Patented technology covered digital processing in cameras, printers and PCs.
• Achieved victory for Motorola in a trade secret matter after obtaining an admission of misappropriation and an agreement by the opponent party to discontinue misappropriation of client’s trade secrets and to cease manufacturing, importing, and sales of the compromised products into the US.
• Represented Nikon in major photolithography patent case. The other party paid $145 million to settle the case with Nikon.
• Represented Motorola in a large patent litigation which included contract disputes involving analog copy protection technology. Case settled prior to trial.
• Represented Vonage in multiple patent cases where adverse party was asserting 12 patents against Vonage and Vonage was asserting 3 patents against Nortel and others. Case settled.
• Represented BEA Systems (now part of Oracle), including the defense of an action for patent infringement in the District of Delaware, the assertion of infringement claims against Software AG in the Eastern District of Virginia, and the successful initiation of reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, leading to settlement of all litigation.
• Represented Vonage in a three-week trial before the Eastern District of Virginia and on appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After the appeal, case settled.
• Ronald Katz Licensing v. Amtrak et al. (E.D. Tex. and C.D of Ca.) – Represented Amtrak in patent case relating to automatic telephone call processing technology. Case settled favorably.
• ACTV, Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, S.D.N.Y.) – Managed litigation resulting in victory on appeal at the Federal Circuit on claim construction.
• Mr. Doyle was an expert witness for Bancorp in the Hartford Insurance v. Bancorp case resulting in a victory in the District Court.
• Deborah Changkit v. D.C. Department of Employment Services, No. 08-AA-615, (D.C. Court of Appeals, 2010), won significant appeal for client Ms. Changkit reversing agencies denial of health benefits.

• Member, Black Light Power, Inc. Board of Directors
• Former Member of the Board of Advisors for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
• Member, American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
• Member, Beta Gamma Sigma

• U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Strike Down Business Method Patents and Holds that the “Machine-or-Transformation” Test is not the Sole Test for Determining Patentability of a Process
• IP Risk Management: Reducing Exposure to Patent False Marking Claims
• Big Suits: Verizon v. Vonage, October 2006, IP Law & Business
• Power of IP Competitive Intelligence, October 31, 2005, Israeli-America Chamber of Commerce, Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights
• Panel Moderator, Demystifying Section 337 Investigations at the ITC, June 2006
• Panel Moderator, AIPLA Spring 2005 Conference
• Intellectual Property Reform After the Uruguay Round, Minn. Inst. Legal Education, September 1995
• Performance of DSCS Extremely High Frequency Satellite Signals in Simultaneous Fading and Optimized Jamming, October 1990, Military Communications Conference Proceedings
• Performance of Frequency Hopped MSK Modulated Signals in Jamming and Additive White Gaussian Noise, October 1990, Military Communications Conference Proceedings

Honors

• Mr. Doyle was listed as a “Super Lawyer” in Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008 for Intellectual Property and IP Litigation.
• Mr. Doyle has been named a “Star Litigator” by Benchmark Litigation (2010, 2011).
• Mr. Doyle has been recognized as one of the leading individuals in patent law, Chambers USA, America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2009, 2008, 2006, 2005)
• Mr. Doyle was named the Intellectual Property “Young Gun” in Washington, DC and also a “Leading Lawyer” by the Washington Business Journal, 2004
• Mr. Doyle was named a Leading Patent Lawyer in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Lawyers, 2007.