Andy Nikolopoulos

Summary — Andy Nikolopoulos (Fox Rothschild LLP, Dallas)

Specialty and focus. Nikolopoulos is a commercial and IP litigator whose practice centers on trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade-secret, and unfair-competition disputes, alongside general business litigation; his firm bio emphasizes trial work (more than 40 trials to verdict/judgment in Texas) rather than a technical patent specialty. His sole tracked patent matter — Avant Location Technologies LLC v. Fibar Group S.A. (E.D. Tex., No. 2:24-cv-00165, Judge Gilstrap) — involved location-aware wireless/smart-home patents (geofencing, Z-Wave and mobile-station presence technologies), so his patent exposure to date skews toward wireless/software-implemented technology rather than pharma or mechanical fields.

Side preference. His one tracked appearance is on the defendant side, representing smart-home operating company Fibar Group S.A. and NICE S.p.A. as lead counsel against an NPE (Avant Location Technologies, an Anjay Venture Partners entity) that asserted seven patents. His firm bio states he represents both plaintiffs and defendants and sits on "both sides of the docket," but there is no tracked or web-sourced evidence of him prosecuting patent cases for NPEs.

Firm context and notable outcome. A partner at Fox Rothschild since roughly 2014 (promoted to partner in Dallas), he previously practiced at David & Goodman, P.C., and The Ashmore Law Firm, P.C.; earlier work at Jones Day was a project-assistant role, not an attorney position. The tracked Avant v. Fibar case ended in a negotiated joint dismissal under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(ii) — plaintiff's infringement claims dismissed with prejudice, defendants' counterclaims dismissed without prejudice, each side bearing its own costs — with no claim construction or merits ruling. His verifiable IP results otherwise come from trademark work, including a TTAB opposition win and a complete defense verdict in a trademark/unfair-competition trial where the disputed mark was found generic. He has also appeared in trademark enforcement litigation (e.g., Rolex Watch v. Beckertime, 5th Cir.).

PTAB/IPR and credentials. I found no evidence of IPR/PGR appearances; his USPTO advocacy is at the TTAB (trademark oppositions and cancellations, e.g., the HAPPIEST HOUR cancellation and the Harwood International opposition), so he should not be characterized as a regular PTAB practitioner. Bar/education: licensed in Texas (State Bar No. 24044852) and admitted to all four Texas federal district courts; J.D., South Texas College of Law Houston (2003); LL.M., University of East Anglia (2004); B.A., Trinity University (1998).