Carder W. Brooks

Carder W. Brooks — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Carder W. Brooks is a partner at Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC in Fort Worth, TX (with firm offices in Dallas and Orland Park), where his practice centers on patent litigation, inter partes review, and patent/trademark prosecution. His firm bio lists a wide technology range — software engineering, algorithmic risk modeling, chemical synthesis, small molecules, drug delivery, quantum dot applications, carbon nanotubes, aerospace, railroad and oil-well devices — and court records show matters spanning data-management/MapReduce patents (R2 Solutions v. Databricks, E.D. Tex.; R2 Solutions v. Cloudera, W.D. Tex.), Wi-Fi patent litigation (Atlas Global Technologies v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, E.D. Tex.), and packaging patents (EcoSafe Packaging v. GPA Global, C.D. Cal.). He holds a biotechnology background and earlier life-science-focused roles; no clean single-technology silo is evident.

The tracked case list shows one appearance, as lead counsel for the defendant. Public dockets, however, show his day-to-day work is overwhelmingly for patent owners and monetization entities — most prominently R2 Solutions LLC, an Acacia Research subsidiary, which he represents as plaintiff in district court enforcement suits and as patent owner defending IPRs. He also serves patent-owner clients such as MicroPairing Technologies. His practice is thus weighted to patent-holder enforcement and portfolio defense rather than defending operating companies.

Before joining Nelson Bumgardner Conroy, he was a patent attorney at Fort Worth's Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC, concentrating on PTAB post-grant proceedings and USPTO prosecution; earlier he co-founded and served as General Counsel of GAP Peptides LLC, a peptide-synthesis biotech he helped exit. The most prominent verifiable matters are the R2 Solutions campaign: R2 v. Databricks (E.D. Tex.) was actively litigated through 2025–2026 with summary-judgment and Daubert briefing, and R2 v. Cloudera (W.D. Tex.) terminated in 2025; I found no publicly verified verdict or Federal Circuit decision attributable to him. The single tracked case in the authoritative list is untitled, so it cannot be named here.

PTAB/IPR: Brooks appears regularly before the PTAB defending patents, typically as lead counsel for patent owners — e.g., IPR2021-01581 (Roku v. R2 Solutions) and the Cloudera/Databricks IPRs (IPR2024-00303, IPR2024-00659) — and as back-up counsel in IPR2021-01557 (Unified Patents v. MicroPairing). This is consistent with his stated pre-firm focus on post-grant proceedings.

Bar/education: Texas bar (2017); USPTO registered patent attorney (2016); admitted E.D./W.D./N.D. Texas (2021) and Federal Circuit (2023). JD, Texas Tech (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2017); MS Biotechnology, Texas Tech HSC; BS Computer Science, Oregon State; BA premedical studies, Texas Tech.