Scott Reese

I have practiced intellectual property (IP) law since 2000. Over the years I have focused on different areas of the practice, including patent procurement, patent litigation, adversarial patent office proceedings, IP licensing, strategic IP counseling, and patent opinion work.

I studied chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin (B.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1998). As an undergraduate I built a reactor to make a then newly discovered form of carbon, called Buckminster Fullerene (a.k.a. "Buckyballs") and I performed some of the earliest organometallic chemistry on those molecules. While pursuing my doctorate, I studied how light interacts with the electrons in complex molecules; which I engineered to form highly ordered layers on metal surfaces.

After graduating, I joined the Chemistry Department at the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Research Professor, where I studied oxidative reactions that occur between pharmaceutical compounds and the chemicals that are used during wastewater treatment.

In January of 2000, I started work as a Scientific Advisor at the law firm of Arnold White & Durkee, which merged with Howery Simon Arnold & White. I became a licensed Patent Agent in 2000 and enrolled in Law School in 2001 at the University of Houston. I attended Law School at night, worked on the Houston Law Review, and worked as a Patent Agent/Law Clerk at Howrey during the day.

Upon graduating from Law School in 2004, I became an attorney at Howrey, where I focused primarily on patent procurement and prosecution. In 2005, I moved to the law firm of Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford, and Brucculeri, where I continued my transactional practice and also worked on all aspects of patent litigation. I also worked on adversarial patent office procedures, including practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). I served as virtual in-house patent counsel for a hi-tech materials company, managing their IP procedures, their patent docket, and handling the day-to-day IP issues. I became a partner at Wong Cabello in 2011. In August 2014, Terril Lewis and I launched the law firm of Lewis & Reese, PLLC.