Nicholas D. Caspers

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Nicholas D. Caspers — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Caspers's practice centers on high-tech litigation and intellectual property disputes, per his firm biography. His technical foundation is a B.S. in Computer Engineering (VLSI design and concurrent programming), and the one tracked matter in which he appears involves cloud data-security technology — encryption, key management, and data-chunking architectures. That is a software/computer-systems patent dispute rather than a Wi-Fi, pharma, or mechanical case, and there is no public record of a broader technology portfolio beyond this matter.

Side preference. On the tracked docket he is squarely on the defense side (0 plaintiff-side appearances, 1 defendant-side appearance), representing Google LLC in Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC (E.D. Va., No. 2:23-cv-00097), a case brought by a non-practicing entity asserting four "secure data parser" patents (U.S. Pat. Nos. 10,452,854; 11,068,609; 11,178,116; 9,338,140) against Google Cloud's encryption-at-rest technology and Google Drive. With only one tracked appearance, the sample is too small to establish a firm-side pattern; it supports only the observation that his tracked work has been defending an operating company against NPE claims.

Firm context and bar/education. He is at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, having joined the firm in 2022; the firm's attorney bio lists him in the San Francisco office (a third-party directory listing also shows a Chicago office address — the discrepancy is unresolved). J.D., University of Michigan Law School (2022); B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2019); admitted in Illinois (2022). No prior firm history in patent litigation is publicly documented; his career appears to have begun at Quinn Emanuel.

Notable matters and outcomes. Caspers is identified in the E.D. Va. docket as defense counsel appearing pro hac vice for Google. In that litigation, the court denied Google's § 101 motion to dismiss (Nov. 2023) and then stayed the case pending inter partes review. The parallel PTAB proceedings were handled by separate counsel (Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks for Google; Sullivan & Cromwell and Lowenstein & Weatherwax for the patent owner). Those proceedings produced mixed results for Google: the Board denied institution as to the '140 patent (IPR2024-00213, June 2024), while Bloomberg Law reported in May 2025 that the Board held certain challenged claims of at least one of the asserted patents unpatentable as obvious over prior art (IPR2024-00212/214/215 family). The district court docket reflects that the case is now closed; the specific disposition (settlement versus dismissal) is not confirmed in the sources located.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR or PGR filings list Caspers as counsel of record. His verified appearance is limited to the underlying district court action, so regular PTAB practice should not be attributed to him on the current record.