About Scott
Scott Seeley earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law in 2015 after completing a chemistry diploma with a biochemistry specialization at Central Washington University in 2012. He arrived at law school with a robust technical background, and that scientific training has shaped his approach to patent work. The aggregate of a J.D. and a B.S. in chemistry positions him to bridge technical problems and legal answers.
Early in his legal background he spent time in the federal courthouse as a judicial extern for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in 2013. That placement exposed him to court procedures and the mechanics of federal legal proceedings. He then served as a summer affiliate at Knobbe Martens in 2015 and stayed on as a registered patent lawyer at the company that identical yr.
At Knobbe Martens, Seeley carried responsibilities typical of a patent attorney: drafting and prosecuting patent filings, advising inventors, and making ready submissions for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He registered as a patent practitioner in 2015 and labored on things that required translating laboratory outcomes and technical reports into clean patent claims and specs. Colleagues describe that work as detail-oriented and exacting. His background in chemistry and biochemistry knowledgeable so much of his early docket.
In 2019 he took a step into private practice leadership by co-founding Eastgate IP. He is indexed there as a registered patent lawyer and certainly one of the firm’s co-founders. At Eastgate IP he continued to symbolize inventors and firms before the USPTO and treated the realistic duties of running a small highbrow estate practice whilst keeping involvement in patent preparation and prosecution.
Seeley maintains professional ties to the intellectual estate community. He is a member of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is licensed to practice in Washington and is registered to practice earlier than the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His technical undergraduate degree and years of patent practice integrate to inform his assessment of patentability and claim drafting.
Colleagues and clients have famous the directness of his verbal exchange and his tendency to maintain complicated technical explanations concise. He continues to practice patent regulation at Eastgate IP, dealing with patent prosecution and associated IP things for clients in technical fields.
