Nevin M. Gewertz

Professional Summary — Nevin M. Gewertz

Practice focus. Gewertz is a Chicago-based trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck LLP (the firm was Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP when he joined in 2011). His practice centers on patent litigation with a heavy scientific/technical component, spanning NAND flash memory and forward error-correction (Viasat v. Western Digital and v. Kioxia), hardware speech-recognition architecture (Zentian v. Apple/Amazon), FPGA/low-latency trading systems (HFT Solutions v. Citadel Securities), Hatch-Waxman/ANDA and pharma cases (Endo, Gilead's sofosbuvir hepatitis C portfolio, Bayer's Adempas), medical devices, and collaborative-robot technology (Northwestern v. Kuka). Firm materials also describe significant products-liability and commercial work (Stryker, DuPont, FanDuel).

Both sides of the docket. His tracked appearances are evenly split (2 plaintiff-side, 2 defendant-side), and he regularly represents both patent owners and accused infringers. He has enforced patents for operating companies and patent monetizers (Viasat, Northwestern University, and UK-based Zentian, whose suits target Apple's Siri/Alexa on-device features), while defending operating companies such as Gilead, Citadel Securities, and Western Digital. His web-searchable bio shows comparable defense work (e.g., Gilead, DuPont, Ameritox) and plaintiff-side ANDA work (Endo).

Notable matters and outcomes. Gewertz was on the Bartlit Beck team that won a $229 million jury verdict for Viasat against Kioxia in Waco (July 2026) on NAND flash error-correction patents, earning American Lawyer "Litigator of the Week" runners-up honors. He also worked on Viasat's successful Federal Circuit defense of the same patent family against a Kioxia IPR (Dec. 2025), though the parallel Western Digital IPR appeal went the other way (Fed. Cir. Jan. 2026, affirming invalidity of the '347 patent). In the Gilead/U. of Minnesota sofosbuvir disputes, he helped win a PTAB trial invalidating the asserted patent, a Federal Circuit affirmance (2023), and the precedential sovereign-immunity ruling in Regents of Univ. of Minn. v. LSI Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2019). He currently represents Citadel in HFT Solutions' FPGA patent suit, where a § 101 dismissal motion was denied (Dec. 2025).

PTAB/IPR and credentials. Gewertz appears regularly in IPR/PGR-type proceedings — both challenging and defending patents — but typically as back-up/pro hac vice counsel alongside a registered lead practitioner, indicating he is not himself a USPTO-registered agent. He holds a J.D. with High Honors from the University of Chicago (2009, Order of the Coif) and a Stanford B.S./B.A. (2003), clerked for Judge Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Cir.) and Chief Judge Sarah S. Vance (E.D. La.), and is admitted in Illinois (2011). A 2020 profile reported he was named partner in 2015, though recent dockets and tracked matters list his title variously as associate, counsel, and of counsel, so his current partnership status should be confirmed against the firm's site.