Raymond N. Scott, Jr.

With more than 25 years of intellectual property experience and a career that began as an engineer, Raymond N. Scott, Jr. focuses his practice on patent strategy, portfolio development, patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, intellectual property transactions, and patent litigation.

His unique combination of technical knowledge, in-house leadership, and private practice experience enables him to provide practical, business-focused counsel to companies developing innovative technologies across a broad range of industries.

Before joining Flaster Greenberg, Ray spent more than 15 years as intellectual property counsel at a global medical technology company, eventually in the role of assistant general counsel for patents. He supported the spine, trauma, power tools, navigation, and robotics groups and was typically assigned to the organization's highest-priority projects. He managed worldwide patent portfolios, developed prosecution strategies aligned with commercial objectives, conducted freedom-to-operate analyses, and advised on intellectual property risk throughout the product development lifecycle.  Ray also negotiated patent and technology licensing agreements, supported large mergers and acquisitions through intellectual property due diligence and integration, and worked closely with business leaders, engineers, and inventors to maximize the value of the company's intellectual property assets.

Earlier in his career, Ray practiced at nationally recognized intellectual property law firms, where he represented clients in patent prosecution, litigation, and strategic counseling involving electrical, mechanical, software, and medical technologies. He has extensive litigation experience, supporting high-profile patent disputes through claim construction, expert development, witness preparation, discovery, and trial strategy.

Throughout his career, Ray has successfully helped clients obtain and enforce valuable patent rights while developing intellectual property strategies that support innovation, mitigate risk, and advance long-term business objectives.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Ray spent more than a decade as an engineer, designing and commissioning industrial control systems for manufacturing and chemical processes (including manufacturing of explosives, fiber spinning, textiles processing, extrusion, dental floss and floss picks, gasket manufacture, and centrifuge processing). Ray wrote software for these control systems in a variety of different programming languages.  He also worked in the power generation field, designing, and commissioning the first fully automated combine cycle power plant in North America. His hands-on engineering experience provides him with a fuller understanding of complex technologies that inventors, engineers, and technical teams deal with on a daily basis, and importantly, his years of experience in a variety of roles gives him the wisdom to provide practical business advice.

Today, he leverages that technical foundation to help clients protect innovations spanning medical devices, robotics, manufacturing systems, software, electrical and mechanical technologies, and other emerging fields.