"My aim is to inform my clients regarding patent rights, and provide excellent and prompt legal services."
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Jeffry H. Nelson
Mr. Nelson prepares and prosecutes patent applications, litigates patent disputes, drafts and reviews licensing and assignment agreements, prepares opinions and conducts due diligence investigations on patent issues.
Mr. Nelson has been lead and second chair counsel in dozens of patent lawsuits, and taken significant roles in over 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.
Mr. Nelson handles matters involving mechanical and medical device technology, industrial control systems, industrial processes, computer software and website technology.
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.
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, the District of Columbia, and 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 is active in the community by having served as a Boy Scoutmaster, public high school PTSA president and in other community volunteer positions.
Education
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(B.S.M.E., cum laude, 1979) - College of William and Mary (J.D., 1982)
Direct Contact
- Phone: 1-703-816-4023
- Fax: 1-703-816-4100
- email: jhn@nixonvan.com