Scott S. Christie

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Scott S. Christie — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Scott S. Christie is a litigation partner at McCarter & English LLP, based in the firm's Newark, New Jersey office, where he is a member of the intellectual property and information technology practice. He is a generalist IP trial lawyer rather than a patent-only practitioner: his practice spans patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, DMCA and trade-secret litigation, plus information technology, data privacy/breach defense, and white-collar criminal matters. Chambers USA has ranked him in Intellectual Property–New Jersey (Band 2, 2011–2026) and describes him as regularly defending companies against patent lawsuits; he is also listed in IAM Patent 1000 (2022–2026) and WTR 1000, and Best Lawyers in America (Information Technology Law). IAM's profile notes that for trial work, McCarter's IP group calls on Christie.

Technology and case profile. His tracked patent docket is concentrated in a single long-running technology dispute — aerial imagery and photogrammetry software for roof estimation and insurance claims analytics (EagleView Technologies/Pictometry v. Xactware Solutions/Verisk Analytics, D.N.J., and the Xactware/EagleView Federal Circuit and PTAB progeny). That reflects a client relationship (Verisk/Xactware) rather than a narrow technical specialty; his firm-level IP work has also touched LED lighting, footwear, flash memory, chromatography and a pharmaceutical reexamination matter, though those are documented as group matters and not all are confirmed as his personal appearances.

Side preference. The tracked appearances split 4 plaintiff / 3 defendant, but all seven sit within the EagleView–Xactware/Verisk family, so the raw count overstates his plaintiff-side role. The public record indicates he primarily defends operating companies — most prominently Xactware and Verisk in the underlying infringement suit — while also handling offensive assertion and enforcement work for the same corporate client (including the Verisk Analytics et al. v. Eagle View Technologies action, where he was lead trial counsel, and TTAB oppositions for Xactware). There is no indication of NPE/PAE-side representation in the tracked data.

Notable matters and outcomes. The centerpiece is Eagle View Technologies, Inc. v. Xactware Solutions, Inc. (D.N.J., Judge Renée Marie Bumb), where he served as defense counsel alongside Lee Carl Bromberg. That matter produced a $125 million jury verdict against his clients in September 2019 (willful infringement of five EagleView patents, validity upheld), followed by an opinion denying a new trial and an enhanced-damages award of roughly $375 million on top of the verdict. He also appeared for Xactware in the related Federal Circuit appeal, Xactware Solutions, Inc. v. Eagle View Technologies, Inc., No. 18-1053 (Fed. Cir. 2019), where Mark Nikolsky argued. The dispute settled in November 2021, with the appeal dismissed; the district court declined to vacate the underlying judgment, so the jury verdict remains of record, while the parties' agreement affirmed the patents' validity and enforceability. These tracked results should be read as adverse outcomes for his clients at the verdict and enhance-damages stages, notwithstanding the eventual settlement.

PTAB/IPR experience. He has appeared in AIA proceedings, including petitioner-side work (e.g., pro hac vice admission in IPR2013-00287), and McCarter's team filed a substantial number of IPRs on behalf of Xactware/Verisk attacking the EagleView patents between 2016 and 2017 — most were denied institution or ended in final written decisions upholding the claims. Christie has publicly discussed the firm's reexamination and PTAB practice and the corresponding uptick in Federal Circuit appeals, but the depth of his personal IPR first-chair role is not fully verified from the sources reviewed.

Bar and education. Admitted in New Jersey (1989) and New York; J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School (1989); B.A., magna cum laude, Colgate University (1986). Before private practice he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he headed the office's Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Section.