Charles Austin Ginnings

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Professional Summary — Charles Austin Ginnings

Focus areas. Ginnings is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 62,706) whose tracked practice centers on wireless and consumer-electronics patent enforcement. Most of his matters involve the Flexiworld Technologies portfolio, whose asserted patents concern wireless printing and output, portable-device/"Wi-Fi"-era data transfer, content casting and screen mirroring, and voice-activated device control — technologies litigated against TV, printer, and consumer-hardware makers (Sony, LG, HP, Lexmark, Roku, Amazon, Xerox, Hisense, TCL, Brothers Industries). Other representations add adjacent technology: Perceptive Automata (AI/behavior-prediction software for autonomous driving), Google v. Secure Communication Technologies (IPR), Stellar LLC (Motorola Solutions IPR), and Micropairing Technologies (device pairing). He also handled a Lexmark v. Flexiworld appeal-stage dispute, so his docket has both hardware and software/standards-adjacent subject matter.

Side preference. He is predominantly a patent-owner/plaintiff's-side lawyer: 60 of 74 tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, versus 14 defendant-side. Notably, most of the "defendant" entries are actually defensive PTAB work for patent owners (Flexiworld, Perceptive Automata, Secure Communication Technologies) whose patents are under challenge — so the overall picture is patent monetization/enforcement plus PTAB defense, rather than defense of operating companies. He is frequently listed as lead or co-lead counsel, and on several Flexiworld matters as back-up or pro hac vice counsel.

Firm context. He is a partner at Nelson Bumgardner Conroy P.C., working out of the firm's Chicago-area office (Orland Park/Burr Ridge, Illinois), while the firm's litigation team is based in Fort Worth and Dallas. Several tracked entries list the predecessor firm name Nelson Bumgardner Albritton PC (same practice, prior firm name; his older filings show the austin@nbafirm.com address) before it became Nelson Bumgardner Conroy.

Notable matters and outcomes. The largest cluster is Flexiworld Technologies v. Roku, LG, Sony, HP, Amazon, Lexmark, Xerox, Hisense, and TCL. Verifiable results include the October 2022 Roku resolution: Roku and Flexiworld entered a patent license agreement that dismissed the Western District of Texas litigation with prejudice and terminated Roku's IPRs (IPR2022-01113, -01114) and PGR2021-00112, per the parties' joint motion to terminate. In the Lexmark action (E.D. Ky.), the court denied Lexmark's renewed partial motion to dismiss and its motion to phase discovery (Mar. 20, 2023). The Perceptive Automata v. Tesla and Tesla v. Perceptive Automata filings (E.D. Tex. 2025, later W.D. Tex.) are ongoing, with five Tesla IPRs filed and institution decisions pending across 2026. Google LLC v. Secure Communication Technologies, LLC and Unified Patents/Roku v. Flexiworld are additionally ongoing PTAB matters.

PTAB / IPR experience. Substantial. He appears regularly before the PTAB as patent-owner counsel — lead counsel for Flexiworld in IPR2022-00775 (Unified Patents) and IPR2021-00713/-00714 (Roku), and in Flexiworld petitions filed 2023–24; back-up counsel for Secure Communication Technologies in IPR2025-01182 (Google); and counsel for Perceptive Automata in the Tesla IPR series (IPR2025-01573 through -01577). His tracked roles include "lead counsel (IPR)," "back-up counsel (PTAB)," and "lead/back-up trial & IPR counsel."

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois (Bar No. 6343678) and New York (Bar No. 4986691); registered to practice before the USPTO. Directory listings indicate a J.D. (2011) and first admission in 2012, but no specific law school or undergraduate institution is reliably sourced in the materials reviewed, so I have not included one.