Scott Weingust is a Managing Director in the Intellectual Property Practice and is the leader of Stout’s Intellectual Property Valuation practice. Mr. Weingust has over 27 years of experience providing consulting services to corporations, law firms, universities, and investment firms primarily in the areas of intellectual property valuation, damages, monetization, and management.
Mr. Weingust has provided testimony as a damages and valuation expert in intellectual property-related litigation including having offered opinions in Federal District Court. He has testified on a variety of dispute matters including those with claims associated with patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, fraudulent transfer, breach of contract, unfair competition, constructive fraud, and tortious interference. Mr. Weingust has also led project teams on a variety of pre-case and early-case assessments of intellectual property-related damages to assist with decisions related to whether a case should be filed/financed and to support dispute resolution efforts.
Mr. Weingust has performed due diligence and valued intellectual property and other intangible assets for a variety of purposes including: transactions (licensing, purchase/sale, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions), tax strategy and compliance (related party transactions, trust & estate issues, etc.), corporate strategic decision-making, use of intellectual property to attract capital (debt and equity financing), financial reporting, regulatory compliance (Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, etc.), and bankruptcy, among others. He has been directly involved in intellectual property licensing negotiations and has developed many dynamic intellectual property pricing/valuation models for corporate licensing activities and investment decisions.
Mr. Weingust is currently an adjunct professor at the DePaul University College of Law where he teaches a course on intellectual property valuation. He has also taught classes or spoken at seminars on a variety of intellectual property-related topics at New York University School of Law, The John Marshall Law School, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Engineering, the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, and the Michigan State University College of Law. Mr. Weingust has spoken at conferences or other events for many leading intellectual property, legal, and business organizations including the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Licensing Executives Society (LES), American Bar Association (ABA), American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), and Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC), among others.
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