Brian Detwiler

Partner, Practice Group Leader
Intellectual Property
Corporate & Securities

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415.735.5933
bdetwiler@scalefirm.com
Washington, D.C.
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Brian leads Scale’s IP group and helps emerging businesses tackle both legal and operational challenges. With ten years of in-house, high-tech experience, he is adept across a wide range of areas including commercial and government contracting, SaaS licensing, tech transactions, and employment and benefits law.

He is also a skilled intellectual property practitioner with a background in computer science and experience as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Brian is a member of Scale LLP's Dual-Use and Emerging Defense Technology team, where he applies his technical and IP expertise to solve complex government data rights and transactional issues.

Brian regularly serves Scale clients as a fractional general counsel, where he closely integrates with in-house teams to provide timely and frictionless service directly where it's needed. He is comfortable managing all of a client’s corporate legal matters, supporting in-house counsel, or scaling up a team of in-house and/or outside counsel to provide a full-service legal department.

Areas of Expertise

Outside General Counsel
IP Strategy and Portfolio Management
Commercial and Government Contracting
Technology Licensing and Development
Business and Corporate Law
Online Data Privacy and Safety
Employment and HR Administration

Prior Associations

Cobro Ventures, Inc.
Bublup, Inc.
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Riverbed Technology
OPNET Technologies, Inc.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Education

George Mason University School of Law
University of Maryland, College Park

Bar Admission

Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

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