Nathan R. Miles

Nathan R. Miles — patent litigation summary

Nathan R. Miles is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Litigation Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin LLP in Atlanta, where his published firm bio emphasizes complex commercial disputes, insurance coverage, real estate litigation, and product liability rather than patent work as a dedicated practice area. His tracked patent docket is narrow and recent: four defendant-side appearances, all in a single Wi-Fi standards litigation, CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Technicolor (Connected Home) USA, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-02827-SCJ (N.D. Ga.) — the same N.D. Ga. action (and its co-defendant/renamed variants) docketed through multiple entries, with Miles variously listed as lead counsel, counsel of record, of record, and local counsel.

Technology and side. The only patent technology area evidenced in his record is wireless networking — the CommWorks campaign asserts patents (e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,891,807, 7,027,465, 7,463,596, 7,911,979, RE44,904) covering Wi-Fi Multimedia quality-of-service, Wi-Fi Protected Setup provisioning, and 802.11/802.3ah functionality against routers, gateways, and access points. CommWorks is a Georgia-based NPE affiliated with IPInvestments Group, and the asserted patents were acquired from Intellectual Ventures (Lexology; IPWatchdog filings coverage). Across all four tracked appearances Miles is on the defense side (0 plaintiff / 4 defendant), representing the Technicolor entities (now under Vantiva SA) against an NPE, consistent with an operating-company defense practice. There is no tracked plaintiff-side or NPE prosecution work.

Notable matters and outcomes. The CommWorks v. Technicolor action is the only prominent matter in his tracked record; he filed the defendants' answer and corporate disclosure statement in the consolidated N.D. Ga. case in October 2022 (UniCourt/Justia docket). No public verdict, settlement, Federal Circuit appeal, or dispositive ruling involving Miles is documented in the sources reviewed, and the case's later disposition is not reflected in the public dockets retrieved — I found no verifiable outcome to report. The broader CommWorks portfolio has drawn IPR and ex parte reexamination challenges from Unified Patents (e.g., IPR2021-01297), but those proceedings involve other counsel and cannot be attributed to Miles.

PTAB/IPR, bar, and education. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances by Miles were found, so his tracked record does not show regular Patent Trial practice. He is admitted in Georgia (2018) and earned his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (2018); before private practice he clerked for Justice Robert Benham on the Supreme Court of Georgia and interned for Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. (N.D. Ga.) and Judge David R. Sweat (Ga. Superior Courts) (Morris, Manning & Martin profile; Best Lawyers; Avvo). No prior law firm history relevant to patent litigation was located, and no in-house affiliation is indicated. Readers should treat this as a commercial litigator with limited, single-campaign patent exposure rather than a career patent specialist.