Scott Weingaertner

Scott Weingaertner has devoted his thirty year career to helping clients prevail in their most challenging technology and life sciences disputes. Working closely together with his clients in commercial and IP litigation and arbitration, he and the teams he has led have won those clients’ most significant cases, preserving billions of dollars of shareholder value and keeping key products on the market.

Victories Scott has achieved with his clients and colleagues have included: Oracle v. Google, where he formed and led the team that prevailed as co-counsel for Google in the original case of alleged infringement by the Android smartphone platform of seven patents on Java and virtual machines, achieving a complete win on all patents and averting billions in damages in a case that the court called “The World Series of Patent Cases” and for which victory Scott and his colleagues were awarded Managing IP Law's Milestone Case of the Year; LG Electronics v. Dolby Labs, where Scott and his team filed for TRO and PI relief at the eve of winter holidays, on breach of contract, antitrust and tortious interference grounds based on Dolby's abuse of license audit rights and a threat to terminate a global audio license; CosmoKey Solutions GmbH v. Duo Security/Cisco, where Scott argued and won a rare Federal Circuit reversal of a Section 101 patent dismissal on behalf of the original inventor of multi-factor authentication, which Law360 hailed as one of the leading U.S. cases that year; Abiomed, Inc. v. Maquet Cardiovascular LLC, where the team Scott led prevailed twice on summary judgment in separate cases asserting a total of over seven patents covering the client's sole product line of intravascular blood pumps, clearing the way for a $16B+ acquisition of the client by Johnson & Johnson; and many more successful cases.

Scott has been recognized by a variety of Legal Directories, including Managing IP’s 2024 list of IP Stars, and recommended for Patent Litigation and Trade Secret Litigation by Legal 500, which noted that clients have praised Scott as a “Great lawyer in the courtroom,” and “a very experienced big picture lawyer, always civil and polite, but always on the pivotal points of the case, which he plays consequentially.” Clients have also commented that Scott’s “leadership qualities are truly exceptional and he has successfully cultivated a cohesive and high-performing team under his guidance. His ability to lead by example and maintain the team’s focus during such challenging circumstances has been nothing short of inspiring.”

Scott represents clients in a wide variety of technology-driven disputes. He has experience defending clients in consumer mass arbitration cases involving privacy, has handled controversies over supply contracts for mission-critical materials, conducted commercial litigation and arbitration over software license rights, multi-party life sciences licensing disputes and other cases. Over the years, Scott has developed particular expertise successfully handling cross-border disputes, representing entities based in Europe and Asia in U.S. technology-driven and life sciences cases.

Recognizing that technology and science evolve quickly, Scott and his colleagues work hard to avoid silos and instead collaborate across practice disciplines in order to best foresee and meet client needs – which increasingly fall between legal specialties in law firms and in-house legal departments. He assembles multi-disciplinary teams capable of identifying and exploiting theories that emerge at the interface of differing legal fields, including antitrust, contract law, IP law and business tort law, both in technology and life sciences disputes.

Before attending law school, Scott was an engineer and software developer in the field of AI and vehicle guidance, with undergraduate and advanced engineering degrees in computer-based control of complex systems. The first matter he worked on in a law firm, as summer associate in 1991, involved protecting methods of learning in neural networks. Scott has kept up with the field and received an Executive Program Certificate from MIT in Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.