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Principal, Electrical/ICT Team
Email: scott.berggren@sprusons.com.au

Scott Berggren has more than 15 years experience in patent practice in Australia, the United States, and Singapore. His main areas of professional practice include drafting and prosecuting patent applications internationally, advising clients about their patent portfolios, and providing opinions on patent matters. He has technical knowledge across the fields of computer, electrical and electronic engineering, in a wide range of technologies such as semiconductors, telecommunications, optics, computer graphics, databases and data warehousing, antennas, medical devices, and
hard disk drives.

Scott has the rare qualification amongst Australian patent attorneys of also being a United States patent agent, with direct experience practising in the United States while working at a law firm in Los Angeles for several years. Scott joined the firm in 1994 and managed Spruson & Ferguson’s associated practice in Singapore (Ella Cheong Spruson & Ferguson (ECSF)) from 1998 to 2000.

Appointed a Principal in 1999, Scott is also admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Since 2000, he has lectured in Patent Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Scott is a fellow of the Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys in Australia. He is also a member of the International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI), Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ).


Qualifications

	Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
	Master of Science in Electronic Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
	Bachelor of Laws, University of Technology, Sydney
	Graduate Diploma in Industrial Property, University of Technology, Sydney
	Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales
	Registered US Patent Agent
	Registered Australian Patent Attorney
	Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
	Registered Australian Trade Mark Attorney
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Articles by Scott Berggren

	U.S. Patent System Overhaul 23 September 2011
	Significant Patent Developments in the EU and US 13 July 2011
	US Federal Court Restricts Inequitable Conduct Challenges 3 June 2011
	US "Fast-Track" Examination of Patent Aplications 7 April 2011
	Door Kept Open to Patenting of Business Methods in United States 29 June 2010
	Shortened timeframe to file European divisional applications 25 February 2010
	USPTO too frugal with patent term adjustments 5 February 2010
	Dependent or Not? Dependent claims need not narrow scope of invention in Australia In Practice, Issue 6 - May 2009
	A change of pace Important Changes and Reforms for European Patents In Practice, Issue 4 - April 2008
	Stating the obvious Determining obviousness in the United States In Practice, Issue 3 - July 2007