Nick Mathews

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Nicholas "Nick" Mathews is a trial lawyer at McKool Smith, based in Dallas, whose practice is concentrated in standard-essential patent (SEP) and FRAND/RAND licensing disputes, plus patent infringement and related antitrust and contract litigation. His technology focus is heavily telecommunications and media coding — cellular/wireless standards, speech coding, video compression and the H.264/H.265 video-coding standards — with additional reported experience in medical devices and industrial automation. He is a registered U.S. patent practitioner who also does patent prosecution work.

Side preference. The tracked caseload shows a single plaintiff-side, lead-counsel appearance, but the public record indicates he works both sides. Most of his high-profile matters have been defense-side for operating companies intervening to protect their products and carrier customers (Ericsson, Nokia, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon), while he has also prosecuted infringement claims for Ericsson as plaintiff. In the tracked Nokia v. HP, Inc. et al. matter he is listed as plaintiff-side lead counsel; McKool Smith's representation of Nokia in the parallel Nokia video-coding campaign is documented, though I was unable to independently confirm his individual role on that specific docket, so that item should be treated as authoritative only from the case list.

Firm context. Mathews has been at McKool Smith for essentially his entire private-practice career, joining after a clerkship and being promoted to Principal effective January 1, 2018. Before the firm, he clerked for Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division) during the judge's first year on the bench. No prior firm history beyond McKool Smith was found.

Notable matters. He was a key member of the McKool Smith trial team that won a $75 million willful-infringement verdict for Ericsson against TCL in 2017 (later enhanced to roughly a $110 million judgment) — a result the Federal Circuit subsequently vacated in 2020 on §101 grounds, with cert denied in 2021. He represented Ericsson at trial and on appeal in HTC's FRAND/antitrust suit, obtaining a defense verdict in 2019, and was Ericsson's counsel in TCL v. Ericsson, where the Federal Circuit vacated Judge Selna's FRAND bench-trial rate determination in December 2019 and remanded for a jury trial. Most recently he was lead counsel for the defense team that secured a complete defense verdict on August 26, 2026 in ASUS Technology Licensing et al. v. AT&T et al. (E.D. Tex.), defeating a $436 million demand for AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Ericsson and Nokia and obtaining findings that the plaintiffs breached their own FRAND obligation. He also represented Ericsson in its 2025 Lenovo patent-licensing settlement.

PTAB/IPR. Chambers rates him as having IPR experience, and he appears in PTAB filings as backup counsel in Ericsson- and AT&T-petitioned IPRs; he does not appear to be a routine lead petitioner counsel.

Bar/education. J.D., cum laude, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2009); B.S., Electrical Engineering, Villanova University (2005); admitted in Texas (Bar No. 24085457) and registered before the USPTO (Reg. No. 66,067).