Nina N. Reed

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Practice focus. Nina N. Reed is an associate in Morrison & Foerster's Intellectual Property Litigation Group, based in the firm's Austin office, where her practice focuses on patent litigation, per her firm biography. Her tracked matters run on the defense side and span two distinct technology areas: cybersecurity/software (the Skysong Innovations suit against CrowdStrike over ASU-originated security patents) and molecular diagnostics/life sciences (the NeoGenomics matter in the Middle District of North Carolina). Her academic background in biology (B.A.S., University of Texas at Austin) is consistent with the life-sciences side of that mix, though the case sample here is too small to establish a settled specialty.

Side preference. Both tracked appearances are defendant-side and none are plaintiff-side, indicating a defense practice representing operating companies rather than asserting patents for NPEs/PAEs. Notably, the Skysong plaintiff is characterized in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database as a university technology-transfer entity (Skysong is Arizona State University's IP commercialization arm), so she has been on the receiving end of university- and NPE-style campaigns.

Firm context. She is at Morrison & Foerster, which appears as her firm of record in the tracked data and whose IP litigation group she is part of. No prior firm affiliations are verifiable from the sources reviewed.

Notable matters. The most prominent tracked case is Skysong Innovations, LLC v. CrowdStrike Inc. et al (W.D. Tex., No. 7:25-cv-00040, filed Jan. 31, 2025), in which Skysong asserted four patents (U.S. 10,313,385; 11,275,900; 11,775,831; 11,892,897) against CrowdStrike's Falcon platform; CrowdStrike moved to dismiss in June 2025 and filed a series of IPRs. She is also identified among the MoFo team that obtained a summary judgment win for NeoGenomics, Inc. in a patent dispute in the Middle District of North Carolina after taking over the matter in February 2024, work recognized by The AmLaw Litigation Daily as "Litigators of the Week." Caution: the available reporting lists her as one of roughly a dozen attorneys on that team, so her individual role and the specific outcome attributable to her are not established by these sources.

PTAB/IPR experience. No IPR or PGR filings in her own name were identified. The related PTAB activity in the CrowdStrike/Skysong dispute is on the petitioner side (CrowdStrike filed IPR2025-01170, -01397, and -01400); that representation is attributable to MoFo, but I could not verify her personal appearance on those petitions.

Bar/education. Firm bio lists a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and a B.A.S. in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin. Specific bar admissions are not reliably captured in the sources retrieved, so they are omitted here rather than guessed.