Nickolas Bohl

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Disambiguation note: Two attorneys named Nickolas Bohl appear in public records. The one in the tracked case list is the California-barred IP litigator (Cal. Bar No. 245943) whose filings list Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. A different person — Nickolas Arlauckas Bohl (WSBA No. 48978), now counsel at Orrick in Seattle, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Washington AAG admitted in New Jersey (2012), New York (2013), and Washington (2015) — should not be conflated with him. Everything below concerns the Feinberg Day attorney.

Practice focus. All five tracked matters are patent infringement suits brought on the plaintiff side. The through-line is the Intellectual Ventures assertion campaigns against financial institutions and media/consumer-electronics defendants: IV and IV II actions against Capital One, Commerce Bancshares, and PNC, plus pro hac vice appearances for the Kudelski Group's OpenTV and Nagravision entities against NFL Enterprises in Judge Gilstrap's E.D. Tex. docket. The underlying technologies in those portfolios are largely software- and network-centric (online/electronic banking and authentication, digital content delivery, and pay-TV conditional-access/DRM technology), consistent with a computer-science-adjacent litigation practice. His earliest tracked appearance, for Samsung as defendant and counterclaim-plaintiff in Wistron Corp. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (N.D. Cal.), shows some work on the defense side of a consumer-electronics/display supply dispute, but that predates the tracked appearances in this list.

Side preference and firm context. The 5–0 plaintiff/defendant split accurately describes his tracked patent work: he has appeared for patent owners and licensing entities rather than for operating companies defending infringement claims. He also appeared as of counsel for IV II in the Federal Circuit appeal in Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (No. 2014-1724), and his role history within the tracked cases progresses from associate (IV II v. PNC) through of counsel and trial counsel to lead counsel (IV v. Capital One, D. Md.) — a seniority progression rather than a change in client-side orientation. Before Feinberg Day he was at DLA Piper US LLP in East Palo Alto (as Nickolas J. Bohl), where he worked alongside Mark Fowler, M. Elizabeth Day, Sal Lim, and Gregory Lundell on the Samsung matter; that group later formed the Feinberg Day firm (successively Feinberg Day Kramer Alberti Lim Tonkovich & Belloli, now Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson), and his filings there use a feinday.com address.

Notable matters, PTAB, and bar. The most prominent tracked matters are the Capital One actions and the multi-defendant IV II financial-services suits (PNC, Commerce Bancshares). I was unable to verify specific verdicts, damages awards, settlements, or Federal Circuit dispositions in those cases from the sources reviewed, so no outcomes should be attributed to him without checking the dockets — in particular, the widely reported Capital One/IV trial results should be confirmed before being tied to his individual role. I also found no publicly confirmed IPR, PGR, or CBM appearances by him; the Feinberg Day attorneys visible on PTAB papers in the record reviewed are other firm lawyers (Lim, Alberti, Lin, Tonkovich), though the firm itself is active in PTAB work. Bar admission: California (Bar No. 245943), per his court filings; no reliably sourced education information specific to this attorney was located, since the Martindale and Orrick profiles matching the name belong to the Seattle attorney.