Scott Doyle is Chair of Shearman & Sterling’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and Co-Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Mr. Doyle has been lead counsel in scores of significant and successful IP litigations in courts throughout the United States. He has litigated cases involving a wide range of technologies including telecommunications, Internet, digital cameras, computer hardware and software, photolithography machines, chemical compositions, medical devices, semiconductor, bar scanning devices, and biotechnology, among others.
Recently, after prevailing on summary judgment in a patent case at the District Court of New Jersey, Mr. Doyle argued and led the Shearman & Sterling LLP team to a victory at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA, where the Court affirmed the district court decision finding all the patent claims on a vehicle sleepiness detection system invalid because they were indefinite. Mr. Doyle and his team also recently obtained summary judgment and dismissal of all claims of patent infringement in a case involving fuel injection technology after convincing the Court to change its two previous claim constructions. In another representative case, Mr. Doyle and his team represented Nikon in major photolithography patent suit which resulted in a payment of $145 million to Nikon from the adverse party. Mr. Doyle, as co-lead trial attorney, represented Vonage in rebuffing Verizon’s efforts to shut down the company based on allegations of patent infringement involving VoIP technologies through trial and appeal. For Motorola, Mr. Doyle and his team got a Taiwanese designer/manufacturer and its U.S. client to cease and desist from manufacturing, importing and selling cable modems in the United States that included misappropriated trade secrets.
Mr. Doyle also is experienced in Section 337 Litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and previously worked in the General Counsel’s Office at the ITC. Mr. Doyle also has vast experience with alternative dispute resolution including arbitration and mediation.
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 in deals, including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, as a Senior Vice President at Liberty Media Inc. and its wholly owned affiliates Liberty Broadband and OpenTV, where he was Chief Intellectual Property Officer.
As an electrical engineer with a master’s 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.
