Arjun Padmanabhan Nair

I'll research this attorney before drafting. Note the tracked case list contains only one entry and it is untitled, so I'll need to verify carefully and flag uncertainty.

The name appears in dockets both as "Arjun Padmanabhan" and "Arjun Nair" (same Cole Schotz email root). Let me verify case details, PTAB activity, and bar admissions.

Professional Summary: Arjun Padmanabhan Nair

Specialty / focus areas. Nair is an intellectual property and litigation attorney in Cole Schotz P.C.'s Dallas office, where his practice centers on complex patent litigation in federal courts. His firm biography describes recent representations spanning IoT technology, wireless telecommunications, doorbell cameras, and multi-sensor systems, along with work on infringement contentions, claim construction, expert discovery, and expert witness examination. Court filings and firm announcements tie him to camera/drone imaging technology and, most recently, thermochromic writing-instrument technology. He also handles TTAB trademark litigation and bankruptcy preference litigation. His technical background is a B.S. in industrial engineering, which aligns with the hardware- and sensor-oriented subject matter in his case list. [Cole Schotz bio]

Side preference. Every patent matter I could verify places him on the patent-owner/plaintiff side. The authoritative appearance data shows 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side — consistent with the verified record, where he appears as plaintiff's counsel in Contour IP Holding v. SZ DJI Technology (C.D. Cal.) and was on the trial team for the patent owner in SB IP Holdings v. Vivint (E.D. Tex.). His firm bio, however, claims both "plaintiff and defense side" patent litigation, so the 0-defendant count may reflect an incomplete track record (the single tracked matter is listed as "Untitled," so it could not be cross-checked). The evidence supports characterizing him as primarily an enforcement-side litigator at this stage, with the caveat that firm materials assert two-sided experience.

Firm context and notable matters. He has practiced at Cole Schotz throughout his post-law-school career as shown in available sources; no prior law firm is identified, though he served as a judicial intern to Judges Karen Gren Scholer and Jane J. Boyle (N.D. Tex.) before joining. Verified matters include:

• SB IP Holdings LLC v. Vivint Smart Home, Inc., No. 4:20-cv-00886 (E.D. Tex.) — jury verdict of $45.4 million on Oct. 23, 2023, with a willful-infringement finding on two video-doorbell patents. Nair is named among the associates on the trial team in Cole Schotz's own announcement. The court declined to enhance the award in August 2024, and Vivint publicly stated it would appeal.
• Contour IP Holding LLC v. SZ DJI Technology Co., No. 2:25-cv-02182 (C.D. Cal.) — plaintiff's counsel (admitted pro hac vice) in a camera/drone imaging suit asserting U.S. Patents 8,890,954 and 8,896,694; the case has been stayed pending the related Contour v. GoPro litigation.
• PILOT Corporation Amazon APEX proceeding — Cole Schotz announced a favorable outcome against ParKoo over U.S. Patent No. 9,844,973 (erasable-pen technology), resulting in removal of accused products from Amazon; Nair was quoted and listed on the team.

PTAB / IPR experience. I found no reliable evidence that Nair is a registered practitioner or that he regularly appears in PTAB proceedings on his own signature. One PTACTS filing lists him among Cole Schotz attorneys associated with Intellectual Tech v. Zebra Technologies (2025), but that document is an expert's engagement history, not a PTAB appearance record, so it does not establish IPR/PGR practice. Treat IPR experience as unverified.

Bar / education. J.D., Texas A&M University School of Law (Articles Editor, Texas A&M Law Review); B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Miami. Specific state bar admission(s) and dates were not reliably sourced and are therefore omitted.

Disambiguation note. The same attorney appears in dockets as both "Arjun Padmanabhan" (apadmanabhan@coleschotz.com) and "Arjun Nair" (anair@coleschotz.com); the shared Cole Schotz Dallas address confirms these are one person. The authoritative data lists his role as Counsel while the firm's public bio lists "Associate" — the discrepancy is unresolvable from available sources. He should not be confused with Devan V. Padmanabhan of Padmanabhan & Dawson PLLC, a different attorney.