Washington,
DC
Scott E. Bain is the chief litigation counsel and the director of the Internet Anti-piracy Program of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association of U.S. software and digital publishing industries. In this position, he manages and conducts the litigation of the SIIA on behalf of the association and its member companies. In previous positions, Mr. Bain was a partner at the firm of Wiley Rein LLP and the vice president of legal affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America. Mr. Bain has litigated a wide variety of intellectual property (IP) cases, including the patent case of NTP v Research in Motion, Ltd (the "blackberry case"), as well as the notable copyright case of "Lowry's Reports, Inc v Legg Mason, Inc," which yielded one of the largest statutory damage awards in history. Chairperson of the American Bar Association's International Task Force on Piracy, he is coauthor of "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Basics, Law, and Policy" (2005) and many other IP publications. A former software engineer, Mr. Bain received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley in 1997. Following law school, he clerked for Hon. Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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