Fitzpatrick, Tom

Scott Cowan has first-chair trial and appellate experience and substantial experience with complex, multiparty, and multiforum litigation in state and federal courts. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation involving intellectual property claims, trade secret claims, commercial and contract disputes, construction matters, and product liability claims. Scott counsels numerous Fortune 500 companies in the software, technology, oil and gas, chemical, aerospace, manufacturing, and service industries on both U.S.-based and international litigation and arbitration matters.

Scott is on the trial team defending the software company SAP, and its Texas-based subsidiary, in a complex copyright infringement case brought by Oracle in federal court in the Northern District of California (Oakland). The Oracle v. SAP matter is a complex dispute that was originally tried in November 2010. SAP's post-trial motions were granted, which resulted in vacating the $1.3 billion jury verdict against SAP, and now the matter is still pending in the trial court. Scott also represented Lycoming Engines, a Textron company, in AVCO Corp. v. Interstate Southwest, Ltd., 251 S.W.3d, 632 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 2007, pet. denied), a complex multiforum dispute that concluded in part through an appellate decision in Lycoming's favor — a decision that reversed a $96 million judgment that followed a seven-week jury trial.

Scott is the Houston Office coordinator for Jones Day's New Lawyer Group and is the office's coordinator for legal and project assistants. He is a member of the American and Houston Bar Associations and teaches trial skills courses through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's continuing legal education programs.