A.H. "Nick" Gaede, Jr.

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Professional summary — A.H. "Nick" Gaede, Jr.

Focus areas. The tracked record shows a single patent case, and it is a local-counsel appearance rather than a patent-specialist practice. Publicly available Alabama bar and firm directories describe Gaede's practice as general commercial and business litigation, construction law, alternative dispute resolution, and international arbitration; patent litigation does not appear among his listed practice areas or speaking/teaching credits. The one patent matter in which he is tracked — Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. et al., No. 2:13-cv-01106 (N.D. Ala.) — involved NPE-asserted patents on online-banking/secure-transaction technology (e.g., U.S. Patents 5,745,574; 6,314,409; 6,826,694), so the technology at issue was financial-services software rather than a field in which he has any demonstrated specialization.

Side preference. The structured data lists one appearance, on the plaintiff side, as local counsel. That designation is not corroborated by the primary filings: the Rule 7.1 corporate disclosure statement filed August 5, 2013 in the Intellectual Ventures II case lists "A.H. 'Nick' Gaede, Jr." and Jennifer A. Hanson of Bainbridge Mims Rogers & Smith under the heading "Attorneys for Defendants, BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. and Compass Bank d/b/a BBVA Compass." The discrepancy cannot be resolved from the sources reviewed, and in any event a single local-counsel entry is too thin a basis to infer any plaintiff-side or defense-side preference. This should be verified against the docket before relying on it.

Firm context. He is/was a member of Bainbridge Mims Rogers & Smith LLP, a Birmingham, Alabama litigation firm. No prior firm history relevant to patent litigation was found in the sources reviewed; some older directory listings associate the name with a Birmingham general-practice firm, but that could not be confirmed as a distinct career stage. He should be disambiguated from William "Bill" Gaede of McDermott Will & Emery (Silicon Valley), a life-sciences IP litigator — a different attorney.

Notable matters and PTAB. The only tracked case is Intellectual Ventures II v. BBVA Compass. The publicly reported outcome is attributable to Jones Day as lead counsel for Compass Bank: after a stay pending inter partes review, Compass obtained dismissal with prejudice of all of IV's claims (Jones Day firm description, 2018). No PTAB appearances by Gaede were found; the IPRs and CBM review in that campaign were filed and prosecuted by Jones Day, IBM, and other firms (e.g., IPR2014-00719/00722; CBM2014-00157).

Bar/education. Admitted to the Alabama bar in 1964; Yale University, B.S. (1961); Duke University, LL.B. (1964), where he served on the Duke Law Journal board. (Sourced to Alabama lawyer directories and his firm-profile listings; not independently confirmed via a state bar page.)

Caveats: Much of the above rests on directory listings rather than firm or court records, and the plaintiff/defendant discrepancy in the single tracked case is unresolved. Recommend pulling the N.D. Ala. docket and his Bainbridge Mims profile before using this in any filing or client-facing document.