Scott Horstemeyer

Partner

education

West Virginia University

J.D., 1989
West Virginia University

B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1986, cum laude

bar admissions

District of Columbia
Georgia
Ohio
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

court admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia

Scott Horstemeyer is one of the founding partners and a former managing partner of Thomas Horstemeyer. He has been practicing intellectual property law for over thirty-five years.

Scott has experience in connection with all aspects of intellectual property. His practice focuses on patent and trademark work, including procurement (prosecution), litigation strategy, portfolio management, due diligence, infringement investigations, validity investigations, and contract matters including licensing.

Scott has personally written and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. patents, and he has been involved in the examination of thousands of patent applications. He has also prepared, filed, and prosecuted hundreds of trademark applications.

Scott has experience worldwide in prosecuting patents and trademarks and has managed global patent and trademark portfolios of international companies. He has architected and implemented internal company procedures for processing and managing patent and trademark activities. He has actively participated on patent review boards for international companies. He has rendered hundreds of legal opinions to clients, many of which have been involved in litigation. He has also served as a patent expert in lawsuits.

Scott has been instrumental over the years in developing the firm’s high technology law practice, particularly in electrical and software. His practice previously focused on the litigation group at Thomas Horstemeyer, and he served on litigation teams before the federal courts. With the growth of the firm’s practice in patent procurement areas, particularly in technology and software, he began to focus his practice to procurement and client counseling.

Representative matters

For over 3 decades, has served as patent and trademark counsel for an international company that manufactures telecommunications products, including patent prosecution with careful attention to drafting patent claims to read upon proposed industry standards, evaluating new inventions, and licensing.
Serves as patent prosecution and counsel for various startup companies in the software industry.
Has served as patent and trademark counsel for over 3 decades overseeing an international patent and trademark portfolio for an international company that designs containers for spent nuclear fuel rods.
Has served as patent counsel for an international company that manufactures computers and peripherals.
Has served as expert opinion counsel for an international company involved in seismic oil exploration.
Supports the technology transfer office of one of the nation's top research universities and serves as preferred patent prosecution for electrical and software innovations, including their spin-off companies.
Has served as patent counsel for an international company that designs telecom microchips and other telecommunications products.
For over 3 decades, has served as patent and trademark counsel overseeing an international patent and trademark portfolio for a civil engineering firm that designs earth retaining wall systems.