Coby Nixon Email & Phone Number

Atlanta

Greater Atlanta Area

Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation practice group. Practice includes all areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling with particular emphasis on patent infringement litigation.Litigation experience includes cases in federal district courts throughout the country, including Georgia, Texas, California, Delaware, Virginia and Wisconsin; appeals to the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and trials before the International Trade Commission. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and, in addition to litigation practice, has experience in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications.Handled matters for a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from multinational Fortune 500 companies to local start-ups, in diverse fields of technology, including utility monitoring systems, wireless communications, microprocessor packaging, Internet search engines, touch screens for mobile devices, integrated circuits, computer software, electronic medical record systems, human antibody profiling processes, zero-turning-radius lawnmowers, and metal forming and manufacturing processes.

Atlanta

Member of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation practice group.Extensive experience in intellectual property matters in all phases of federal district court and International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation, including pre-litigation strategy, fact and expert discovery, motions practice, claim construction, and trial.Recognized in 2009, 2011, and 2012 as a Rising Star in intellectual property litigation by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine.

Atlanta

Member of the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. Prepared and prosecuted domestic and international patent applications.Drafted patentability, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions. Counseled clients on the selection and use of trademarks, including preparing trademark availability opinions.Managed trademark and domain name enforcement programs. Prepared intellectual property licenses, non-disclosure agreements, and trademark consent agreements. Conducted intellectual property due diligence in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Atlanta

Designed and tested customer billing systems for several major utility companies. Coded programs using COBOL and SQL, trained new analysts about mainframe environment, and analyzed problem accounts in new client/server billing system.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Activities and Societies: Georgia Law Review, Order of the CoifPublication: “Human Cloning and the Commerce Power: In Light of United.

Bse, Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Kappa, Mercer Ambassadors, Sigma Nu