Taryn N. Trusty

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Professional Summary — Taryn N. Trusty

Focus areas. Trusty's tracked patent litigation work is concentrated in wireless connectivity and consumer-electronics technologies. The largest share of her docket is the Flexiworld Technologies enforcement campaign, which asserts short-range wireless content-output patents (IEEE 802.11/Bluetooth streaming from phones to TVs, soundbars, and other output devices) against TV and electronics makers including LG Electronics and TCL. She also appears for plaintiff Perceptive Automata LLC in Perceptive Automata, LLC v. Tesla, Inc., which concerns computer-vision/behavior-prediction technology for automated driving, and in PACER/PTAB records for Secure Communication Technologies, LLC (wireless communications) and Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Toyota). Her technical background is mechanical-electrical: a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an MBA in financial engineering from the University of Alabama, with prior prosecution work at Foley & Lardner focused on vehicles and engine systems, electronics and mobile devices, oil and gas, sporting goods, fashion/apparel, and tobacco/e-cigarettes.

Side preference. Her tracked appearances are exclusively plaintiff-side patent enforcement — 9 plaintiff, 0 defendant — spanning roles as counsel, co-counsel, plaintiff's counsel, and counsel of record. The clients are patent owners running licensing/enforcement programs, several of which operate as non-practicing entities (Flexiworld, Secure Communication Technologies, Malikie). No defense-side or operating-company representation appears in the tracked data.

Firm context. She practices at Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC (offices in Burr Ridge, Illinois and Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas), a boutique whose docket is built around patent-owner enforcement and PTAB work; she is listed on the firm's team page as practicing patent litigation, utility and design patent prosecution, and portfolio counseling. Before joining the firm she was a patent prosecution associate at Foley & Lardner LLP in Chicago.

Notable matters, PTAB, and credentials. Her most prominent tracked matters are the Flexiworld Technologies suits against LG and TCL and Perceptive Automata v. Tesla (W.D. Tex.), where Tesla has filed a series of IPR petitions against the asserted patents and the parties have litigated a motion to stay pending institution. She appears on Nelson Bumgardner's PTAB filings as patent-owner counsel of record or back-up counsel in inter partes reviews involving Flexiworld patents (e.g., IPR2022-00775, Unified Patents v. Flexiworld) and Secure Communication Technologies patents (IPR2025-01051, IPR2025-01181, IPR2025-01182), so PTAB/IPR work is a routine part of her practice, generally on the patent-owner side. Publicly reported verdicts or Federal Circuit outcomes attributable to her individually were not located in available sources; the Flexiworld and Perceptive Automata matters appear to remain pending or to have resolved without a reported judgment naming her. She is a member of the Illinois bar (Ill. Bar No. 6344409), a registered U.S. patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 81,987), admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and holds a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law (2022) with an IP certificate.

Note: a separate Australia-based trade mark attorney named Taryn at Spruson & Ferguson is a different individual and is not the subject of this summary.