Nicholas Daniel Caspers

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Professional summary — Nicholas Daniel Caspers

Focus areas. Caspers's practice at Quinn Emanuel is described by the firm as high-tech litigation and other intellectual property disputes. His single tracked matter, Google LLC v. Security First Innovations, LLC, is a data-security case: the patents at issue (U.S. Patents 9,338,140; 10,452,854; 11,068,609; 11,178,116, among others) cover chunked/distributed encrypted storage, key management, and secure data parsing, asserted against Google's cloud storage "encryption at rest" and Google Drive functionality. That software/computer-security profile matches his technical background (B.S. Computer Engineering). Nothing in the tracked record shows pharmaceutical, mechanical, or standards-essential (e.g., Wi-Fi/SEP) work.

Side preference. His only tracked appearance is on the defendant side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), defending Google against a patent-owner plaintiff — Security First Innovations, a non-practicing entity. The documented pattern is therefore defense of an operating company; there is no tracked plaintiff-side or NPE/PAE representation. The sample is a single case, so this should not be read as a settled practice preference.

Firm context. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, joined 2022. Sources conflict on his current title and office: the firm bio lists him as an associate in the San Francisco office, while the tracked case data lists him as of counsel, and a Martindale entry shows a Chicago address. The most recent status is not clearly verifiable. No prior firm appears in the record; he joined the firm in 2022, the same year he received his J.D., so there is no earlier patent-litigation employer to note.

Notable matters and outcomes. Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC (E.D. Va. No. 2:23-cv-00097), with a parallel declaratory-judgment action (No. 2:23-cv-00091): the district court granted Google's motion to stay pending inter partes review on January 19–22, 2024. On the PTAB side, the Board denied institution in IPR2024-00213 (the '140 patent) in June 2024, and denied Google's request for rehearing in July 2024; in a separate Google IPR, the Board found challenged claims obvious (Bloomberg Law, May 19, 2025). I could not verify Caspers's individual role in any of these outcomes — the IPR petitions of record were filed by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, and the Quinn Emanuel attorneys I could identify in the district-court filings were other lawyers. His personal PTAB/IPR experience is therefore undocumented in the available sources, and I cannot confirm he appears regularly in post-grant proceedings.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois (2022); J.D., University of Michigan Law School (2022); B.S. Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (2019).

Caveat: the professional-background details above rest on the firm's own bio page (mirrored on a Quinn Emanuel site), a Martindale directory entry, and court/PTAB dockets; the firm bio and the directory disagree on his title and office, and no independent reporting on him was located.