M. Scott McBride

M. Scott McBride, Ph.D., is an non-equity partner and registered patent attorney at Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall.

Scott focuses his practice on domestic and international patent prosecution and enforcement. Scott also provides counseling and opinion work related to patent non-infringement and patent invalidity in view a client’s freedom to practice a given technology.

Scott has legal expertise related to the patentability of genes, polypeptides, antibodies, diagnostic methods, new chemical entities, pharmaceutical formulations, vaccines, treatment methods, food products, cosmetic products, and animal feed products. Scott is the author of law articles including “Bioinformatics and Intellectual Property Protection, 17 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1331 (2002) and “Patentability of Human Genes: Our Patent System Can Address the Issues Without Modification,” 85 MARQ. L. REV. 511 (2001) (selected for republication in Intellectual Property Law 2002, an anthology of the year's best intellectual property law articles). In addition, Scott has over ten years experience as a research scientist, and has co-authored articles in scientific journals including the JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, RNA, MOLECULAR CELLULAR BIOLOGY, and GENE.

Scott also is an Adjunct Professor at Marquette University Law School where he teaches courses in intellectual property law.

Scott is a member of the Wisconsin Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and United States Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. PTO).

Scott is a graduate of Marquette University Law School (J.D. 2002, summa cum laude), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. 1996, Cell and Molecular Biology), and Colorado State University (B.S. 1990, Biochemistry, minor in Chemistry).