Stephen Scott

Senior Associate, Patent Attorney
Tokyo, EIP Europe LLP

Stephen is a UK and European patent attorney, and head of EIP’s representative office in Tokyo, Japan.

Stephen’s experience covers a range of technical fields, including mechanics, software, data processing, security, networking, telecommunications and computer modelling. He has significant experience in managing prosecution of multi jurisdiction patent portfolios, with particular expertise in coordinating prosecution of applications in Europe, the United States and the Far East.

Stephen joined EIP following two years in Japan under the support of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship Programme, through which he obtained a high level of Japanese language ability. Stephen worked with a number of Japanese multinational companies on projects ranging from gas turbine combustor simulations to policy research for future vehicle propulsion technologies.

Stephen has a first class degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in simulation of turbulent particulate flows, both from Imperial College London. Through his PhD, Stephen gained significant experience in the development of mathematical modelling methods and application of these methods using parallel simulation frameworks designed for high performance computing platforms. Stephen’s research lead to various journal papers and a book published by Springer-Verlag.

Recent work

  • Continuing to develop patent portfolio for Rakuten, Inc. in relation to various e-commerce related technologies.
  • Litigation support for Good Technology Corporation in multinational patent litigation in the field of mobile device management.
  • Patent drafting in the field of mobile application and mobile device management.
  • Support work in several high-profile Inter-Partes Reviews at the USPTO.
  • Advice work in relation to validity and infringement.

Published articles

  • 2014
    Springer Verlag - Green Energy and Technology, Statistical Treatment of Turbulent Polydisperse Particle Systems (ISBN 978-1-4471-6344-2) (link)
  • 2011
    Intellectual Property Counsellor, Anheuser-Busch v. Budvar: A global dispute turns on local significance
  • 2009
    International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, On the quantification of preferential accumulation
  • 2008
    International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Experimental investigation of a maximum entropy assumption for acceleration terms within a poly-disperse moment framework

Education and qualifications

 

  • 2008 — 2009
    PG Certificate, Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University
  • 2002 — 2006
    PhD, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Imperial College London
  • 1998 — 2002
    MEng, Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class Hons, Imperial College London

Career history

  • 2008 — present
    Senior Associate, EIP
  • 2006 — 2008
    Daiwa Scholar, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Languages spoken

  • Japanese (Fluent)

Speaking engagements

  • 19 June 2015
    IJET 26 York - The International Japanese-English Translation Conference, The role of translation in patent law (link)