Scott Gerien heads the firm’s Intellectual Property Department and has been practicing in the areas of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law since his first case in 1996. His experience covers all aspects of these areas of law, including practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), counseling on protection, licensing and acquisition of intellectual property, and enforcement and litigation in state and federal court.  He has represented clients in over 250 administrative proceedings in the USPTO and has filed and prosecuted in excess of 1,500 trademark applications. 

Scott manages both the domestic and international trademark portfolios of several high profile companies, and also acts as the U.S. trademark associate for numerous foreign entities.  In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Scott was identified as one of the top fifty trademark filers in the United States based on total number of trademark applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2009, Wine Industry Business Journal also named him one of the top wine lawyers in Northern California and described him as “one of the most knowledgeable wine trademark-protection attorneys in the nation and the world.”

Prior to joining the firm, Scott was an attorney with a San Francisco intellectual property boutique law firm. Scott is very active with the International Trademark Association (INTA) and is the current Chairman of the INTA Related Rights Committee, which focuses on geographical indications, design rights, rights of publicity and indigenous rights.  He is also a board member of the International Wine Lawyers Association. Scott has been invited to speak on trademark issues by several different international organizations and has also written numerous articles on intellectual property issues.
 
Scott graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1990 with a degree in Political Science. After college, Scott worked in advertising as an account executive before attending Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Remedies, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a member of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.  Outside of his law practice, Scott is also a Board member of di Rosa Art.  www.diRosaArt.org