| Biography:
Scott P. Cooper has been successfully litigating complex commercial cases for 28 years at every level of the state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Scott concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation including antitrust, intellectual property and securities disputes. He has extensive experience in domestic and international business litigation involving a broad range of products, services, technology and proprietary information.
Scott has extensive experience in antitrust litigation. His cases have included the defense of cable company MediaOne Group, now a part of Comcast Corporation, in a cable Internet access antitrust class action in Los Angeles, representation of a motion picture exhibitor in civil antitrust litigation relating to the legality of motion picture distribution practices under federal and state antitrust laws, and defense of a prominent pharmaceutical firm in a purported nationwide antitrust class action. Scott also has represented clients in connection with state and federal civil and criminal antitrust investigations and grand jury proceedings, including the transactional counseling of clients.
Scott’s intellectual property experience is equally extensive. In 2000, he was one of the lead trial counsel in the landmark Digital Millennium Copyright Act victory on behalf of the motion picture industry in the Southern District of New York. That case of first impression involved the application of the anti-circumvention rules of the Copyright Act to Internet distribution of a utility for illegally decrypting DVDs. He also represented most of the major motion picture studios and the four major television networks in their technology copyright action against ReplayTV, the distributor of personal video recorders. He has handled disputes of all kinds affecting the entertainment and media industries, including financing, licensing and distribution, idea submission, rights of privacy and publicity, participation accounting and Guild residual disputes.
Scott represents domestic and foreign-based clients in matters in the U.S. and Europe involving subjects as diverse as transactions involving computer products, motion picture financing and licensing, as well as a wide range of issues relating to fine art. He represents, among other clients based outside the United States, the Republic of Austria and the Austrian National Gallery, on whose behalf he argued before the United States Supreme Court in February 2004, in a case of first impression involving the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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