Allison E. Strong

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Allison E. Strong is an associate in Nixon Peabody's Chicago office whose practice spans patent litigation and patent/trademark prosecution. Her technical background is in chemical engineering (BS, Purdue), and her firm bio frames her litigation work as covering "technology-intensive industries" at all stages — research, motions practice, discovery disputes, and hearing preparation. The tracked matters and firm-described representative experience cluster around data center cooling equipment, semiconductor/networks-on-chip technology, and secure payment transactions, with collateral trademark work (including a client alert on the Hermès/MetaBirkins NFT dispute).

Side preference. Her tracked appearance is on the plaintiff side (1 plaintiff / 0 defendant), and the broader record is genuinely mixed. She is listed for Vertiv Corporation, an operating company that filed a declaratory judgment action against NPE Valtrus Innovations to protect its customers, and also for Network System Technologies, LLC (NST), a patent owner asserting networks-on-chip patents against Qualcomm and others — i.e., she has worked both the operating-company defense/indemnity posture and the patent-owner enforcement side, rather than specializing in one.

Firm context. Nixon Peabody is her only tracked firm; her current role dates from 2022, following law school clerkships and IP-focused internships, so there is no meaningful prior-firm patent litigation history to report.

Notable matters and PTAB. The most prominent tracked case is Vertiv Corp. v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. (N.D. Tex./E.D. Tex.), a data-center-cooling dispute in which she is counsel of record and filed declarations supporting Vertiv's oppositions to Valtrus's invalidity motions; on the parallel PTAB track, the Board denied institution of Vertiv's petitions (IPR2025-00667/668/669) under § 314(a) discretionary denial. She also appears as back-up counsel for NST in Qualcomm/Samsung v. Network System Technologies (IPR2024-00343), where the related W.D. Tex. litigation was stayed pending rehearing, and in NST v. Qualcomm (W.D. Tex.). So she does appear in IPR proceedings, though in supporting rather than lead counsel roles. Law360 lists nine tracked matters across her name, including a copyright case (Ubifun Studio, N.D. Ill.) and other matters not reflected in the authoritative case list above.

Bar/education. Admitted in Illinois and before the USPTO (Reg. No. 79,349); JD, Indiana University Maurer School of Law; BS Chemical Engineering, Purdue University.

Caveat: Some third-party aggregator data (e.g., PatentBots applicant lists) appears unreliable or firm-aggregated for this name, and I could not verify any verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements attributable to her individually; the PTAB institution denial and case postures above are drawn from USPTO filings and court dockets.