Jeff Nelson :: Nixon & Vanderhye PC

Phone: 703-816-4023 Fax: 703-816-4100 e-mail: jhn@nixonvan.com Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.S.M.E., cum laude, 1979) College of William & Mary (J.D., 1982)	JEFF NELSON litigates patent disputes, prepares and prosecutes patent applications, drafts and reviews licensing and assignment agreements, prepares opinions and conducts due diligence investigations on patent issues. He has been a patent attorney for over 24 years. He joined Nixon & Vanderhye in 1990 after serving as a patent trial attorney for the US Department of Justice. Mr. Nelson has been lead and second chair counsel in dozens of patent lawsuits, and taken significant roles in nearly 70 intellectual property lawsuits. Mr. Nelson has tried patent and copyright cases, presented at many summary judgment and Markman hearings, and presented oral arguments before the Federal Circuit. He has litigated often in the "rocket docket" of the Eastern District of Virginia. At Nixon & Vanderhye, Mr. Nelson generally handles matters involving mechanical and medical device technology, industrial control systems, fluid mechanics, turbo machinery, and computer, electronic, semiconductor, telecommunication. He also oversees the Nixon & Vanderhye computer department. From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Nelson was a patent trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. He was lead government counsel in over two-dozen patent and copyright actions, including a successful six-week trial that resulted in non-infringement judgment, a four-day copyright trial in which judgment was rendered for the government, many cases favorably resolved by summary judgment and settlement, and several appellate hearings before the Federal Circuit. During 1982-83, Mr. Nelson clerked for the U.S. Court for Federal Claims. In 1982, Mr. Nelson graduated from the College of William and Mary with a J.D. degree, and in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic and State University with a B.S. degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering. In 1986, Mr. Nelson completed the course work necessary for a Masters of Science degree in computer and electrical engineering at the George Mason University . Mr. Nelson is admitted to practice in Virginia (1982), the District of Columbia (1990), and to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Nelson was born on August 20, 1957, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is active in the community, including having served as a Boy Scoutmaster and public high school PTSA president.

Phone:
703-816-4023

Fax:
703-816-4100

Education:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.S.M.E., cum laude, 1979)

College of William & Mary (J.D., 1982)

JEFF NELSON litigates patent disputes, prepares and prosecutes patent applications, drafts and reviews licensing and assignment agreements, prepares opinions and conducts due diligence investigations on patent issues. He has been a patent attorney for over 24 years. He joined Nixon & Vanderhye in 1990 after serving as a patent trial attorney for the US Department of Justice.

Mr. Nelson has been lead and second chair counsel in dozens of patent lawsuits, and taken significant roles in nearly 70 intellectual property lawsuits. Mr. Nelson has tried patent and copyright cases, presented at many summary judgment and Markman hearings, and presented oral arguments before the Federal Circuit. He has litigated often in the "rocket docket" of the Eastern District of Virginia.

At Nixon & Vanderhye, Mr. Nelson generally handles matters involving mechanical and medical device technology, industrial control systems, fluid mechanics, turbo machinery, and computer, electronic, semiconductor, telecommunication. He also oversees the Nixon & Vanderhye computer department.

From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Nelson was a patent trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. He was lead government counsel in over two-dozen patent and copyright actions, including a successful six-week trial that resulted in non-infringement judgment, a four-day copyright trial in which judgment was rendered for the government, many cases favorably resolved by summary judgment and settlement, and several appellate hearings before the Federal Circuit. During 1982-83, Mr. Nelson clerked for the U.S. Court for Federal Claims.

In 1982, Mr. Nelson graduated from the College of William and Mary with a J.D. degree, and in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic and State University with a B.S. degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering. In 1986, Mr. Nelson completed the course work necessary for a Masters of Science degree in computer and electrical engineering at the George Mason University .

Mr. Nelson is admitted to practice in Virginia (1982), the District of Columbia (1990), and to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Nelson was born on August 20, 1957, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is active in the community, including having served as a Boy Scoutmaster and public high school PTSA president.