Scott, John A.

Qualcomm | Vice President and Legal Counsel

John A. Scott is Vice President and Legal Counsel at Qualcomm Incorporated, where he has managed patent, trade secrets and other commercial litigation matters since 2007 in both US and foreign jurisdictions.  He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the US International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Welsh Inn of Court in San Diego.  He has been a frequently invited speaker at conferences put on by The Sedona Conference, the Naples Patent Roundtable, the IPO and American Conference Institute, among others.  Before joining Qualcomm, he was with the litigation group at Morrison & Foerster LLP in Palo Alto and San Diego, California.  He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he served on the editorial board for Berkeley Technology Law Journal and received an Outstanding Fellow Award.