G. Scott Thomas

Gregory Scott Thomas, known professionally as G. Scott Thomas, is a highly experienced patent litigation attorney who serves as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Cirrus Logic Inc.. He joined Cirrus Logic in 2001 as Associate General Counsel of Intellectual Property and assumed the General Counsel role in 2003, where he is responsible for managing the company's legal department and advising on a broad range of intellectual property matters. His practice focuses on complex technology-related litigation, drawing on his engineering background with degrees in electrical engineering and prior work experience at Texas Instruments and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

His career demonstrates a strong preference for defending operating companies. Thomas's sole tracked appearance is as defendant-side in-house counsel for Cirrus Logic in Greenthread, LLC v. Cirrus Logic, Inc. This aligns with his previous role as an intellectual property attorney at Arnold, White & Durkee (later Howrey Simon Arnold & White) in the mid-to-late 1990s, where he specialized in complex technology litigation for corporate clients such as Adtran, 3M, and Ericsson. Before joining Cirrus Logic, he also helped establish the intellectual property division at Thompson & Knight in Austin, Texas, in 2000.

Information regarding G. Scott Thomas's specific involvement in PTAB or IPR proceedings is not readily available in the provided search results.

Thomas earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Texas School of Law, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Rice University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Virginia Tech. He further honed his expertise through a clerkship at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1994 to 1996.