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Phone

Direct (603) 628-1461
Fax (603) 625-5650

Email

scott.rand@mclane.com

Office

City Hall Plaza
900 Elm Street
Manchester, NH 03101

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Scott C. Rand
Associate

An associate in the Firm's Intellectual Property practice group, Scott is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and has ten years of experience in private practice. Prior to entering private practice, Scott spent six years as a Patent Examiner in the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Scott is involved with all phases of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law practice, including patent, trademark, and copyright preparation and prosecution, licensing and contract matters, patent opinion preparation, domain name disputes and other Internet-related issues, intellectual property counseling, and litigation relating to patent, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property matters.

Department

Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Patent preparation and prosecution
  • Infringement, validity, and product clearance opinions
  • Foreign and domestic licensing
  • General intellectual property counseling

Representative Clients & Work

Scott has prepared and/or prosecuted several hundred patent applications in the chemical, electrical, and mechanical arts, including computer hardware and software, e-commerce, business methods, medical devices and equipment, organic and inorganic chemistry, diagnostic imaging, and biotechnology. Representative United States patents include:

  • 7,325,401 Power Conversion Systems
  • 7,321,114 Apparatus and Method for Beam Drift Compensation
  • 7,302,808 Cooling Module and Central Shaft, Hydration Module and Improved Garment Penetrator Therefor
  • 7,228,074 Infrared Repeater System, Method, and Adjustable Brightness Emitter Therefor
  • 7,219,370 Helmet Mounting Systems
  • 7,182,042 Support Pole with Pipe-Hinge Slide Lock
  • 7,178,109 Process/Viewer-Interface
  • D523,711 Bottle Opener Ring
  • D520,290 Foot Rest
  • 7,032,906 Towing Apparatus for Rescue Toboggan
  • 7,012,997 Voice Prompted User Interface for Central Switch Telephone Programming
  • 6,958,076 Implantable Venous Valve
  • 6,950,536 High Volume Mobile Identity Verification System and Method Using Tiered Biometric Analysis
  • 6,944,024 Heat Sink Bracket for Powered Loudspeaker
  • 6,933,919 Pointing Device with Storage
  • 6,922,958 Window Construction with Integrated Sill and Casing and Method of Making Same
  • 6,854,228 Prefabricated Sealed Composite Insulating Panel and Method of Utilizing Same to Insulate a Building
  • 6,787,777 Nuclear Imaging System and Method Using Segmented Field of View
  • 6,785,321 Apparatus and Method for Estimating the Time of Arrival of a Spread Spectrum Signal in a Wireless Communication System
  • 6,775,405 Image Registration System and Method Using Cross-Entropy Optimization
  • 6,757,408 Quality Assurance and Training System for High Volume Mobile Identity Verification System and Method
  • 6,694,172 Fault-Tolerant Detector for Gamma Ray Imaging
  • 6,690,299 Primary Flight Display with Tactical 3-D Display Including Three View Slices
  • 6,673,537 Promoters from Chlorella Virus Genes Providing for Expression of Genes in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Hosts
  • 6,630,909 Meander Line Loaded Antenna and Method for Tuning
  • 6,615,973 Cart for Loading, Unloading and Transporting a Toolbox
  • 6,601,181 Uninterruptible Power Supply Apparatus and Method
  • 6,597,937 Self-Adaptive Tracking and Phase Encoding During Data Collection for Contrast-Enhanced MRA and Dynamic Agent Uptake Studies
  • 6,586,849 Electrical Power Strip for Use with a Computer and Associated Peripheral Devices
  • 6,584,585 Virtual Device Driver and Methods Employing the Same
  • 6,583,911 Optical Communications by Frequency Content of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
  • 6,538,443 MRI Gradient Coil with Variable Field of View and Apparatus and Methods Employing the Same
  • 6,510,195 Solid State X-Radiation Detector Modules and Mosaics Thereof, and an Imaging Method and Apparatus Employing the Same
  • 6,506,402 Chlortetracycline-Containing Animal Feed Compositions and Methods for Their Use
  • 6,505,064 Diagnostic Imaging Systems and Methods Employing Temporally Resolved Intensity Tracing
  • 6,489,589 Femtosecond Laser Utilization Methods and Apparatus and Method for Producing Nanoparticles
  • 6,476,607 MRI Method and Apparatus for Rapid Acquisition of Multiple Views through a Volume
  • 6,440,786 Boron-Carbide and Boron Rich Rhobohedral Based Transistors and Tunnel Diodes
  • 6,424,338 Speed Zone Touchpad
  • 6,392,032 Heavily Fluorinated Sugar Analogs
  • 6,379,664 Composition and Method for the Prevention and Treatment of Oxidative Damage in Ocular Tissues
  • 6,342,485 Synergistic Compositions Useful as Anti-Tumor Agents
  • 6,320,380 MRI Method and Apparatus for Increasing the Efficiency of Echo Planar Imaging and Other Late Echo Techniques
  • 6,265,333 Delamination Resistant Composites Prepared by Small Diameter Fiber Reinforcement at Ply Interfaces
  • 6,076,731 Magnetic Stripe Reader with Signature Scanner
  • 6,064,942 Enhanced Precision Forward Observation System and Method
  • 6,042,414 Vehicle Dock for Portable Data Collection Terminal
  • 5,961,337 Universal Charging and Data Communication Apparatus
  • 5,945,594 Method and Apparatus for the Electrochemical Inspection of Galvanized Cable and Method and Apparatus for Predicting the Corrosion Life of Galvanized Cable Undergoing Mechanical Fatigue
  • 5,936,552 Integrated Horizontal and Profile Terrain Display Format for Situational Awareness
  • 5,859,263 Method and Apparatus for Production of Levulinic Acid via Reactive Extrusion
  • 5,847,825 Apparatus and Method for Detection and Concentration Measurement of Trace Metals Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
  • 5,755,967 Silicalite Membrane and Method for the Selective Recovery and Concentration of Acetone and Butanol from Model ABE Solutions and Fermentation Broth

Admissions

  • New Hampshire
  • United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States Patent & Trademark Office

Professional & Association Memberships

  • New Hampshire Bar Association
  • Nebraska State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association

Education

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1996
  • Patent Examiner, United States Patent & Trademark Office, 1989-1995
  • B.S., University of Maryland, 1988
  • B.S., St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1986

Recent Publications and Lectures