Nelson Bumgardner Albritton

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Firm overview. Nelson Bumgardner Albritton P.C. (now operating in recent PTAB filings as Nelson Bumgardner Conroy P.C., per 2022 USPTO records) is a small Texas-based litigation boutique founded by Edward "Ed" Nelson III, Brent N. Bumgardner, and Eric M. Albritton — the latter a prominent East Texas trial lawyer. Its main office is in Fort Worth (3131 W. 7th Street), with additional offices in Dallas, Longview in the Eastern District of Texas, and Orland Park, Illinois (greater Chicago). Directories (ZoomInfo, LawyerDB) put the firm at roughly 14–20 attorneys; it is not an AmLaw firm and I found no Chambers ranking for it, so it is best characterized as a regional IP litigation boutique rather than a BigLaw or nationally ranked practice.

IP litigation specialty. The firm describes itself as a trial-and-appellate boutique handling "patent enforcement or defense," inter partes review, and complex commercial/technology disputes, on contingency or blended fees, and frequently serving as lead counsel in Texas and other patent venues. The tracked docket work is concentrated in software and wireless-communications patents: Flexiworld's asserted patents cover wireless media "casting"/streaming to smart TVs and streaming devices (the Roku cases) and wireless printing/mobile-device output control (the Canon and HP cases). Related appearances (802 Systems v. Cisco, Unification Technologies v. Micron/Dell, Escort v. Uniden) are consistent with a software, networking, and consumer-electronics focus rather than pharma or heavy mechanical work.

Side preference. All five tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, and the firm's public docket shows it primarily prosecutes infringement suits for patent-assertion entities and monetization vehicles (Flexiworld Technologies, 802 Systems, Unification Technologies, Velos Media) in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, including Judge Albright's Waco docket. Its own marketing says it handles "patent enforcement or defense," and the firm has defended NPE patents before the PTAB, but I found no tracked operating-company defense work. No AmLaw/Chambers ranking exists to contextualize this further.

Notable cases. The firm's highest-profile tracked matters are Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Roku, Inc. (W.D. Tex., Waco) and parallel Flexiworld suits against Canon, HP, and Amazon. Public records confirm one concrete win: the PTAB declined to institute Roku's PGR2021-00111 challenging Flexiworld's U.S. Patent No. 10,846,031 (March 2022). Flexiworld v. Amazon (6:20-cv-00553-ADA) terminated in August 2021, consistent with resolution, and 802 Systems v. Cisco proceeded in E.D. Tex. Eric Albritton's firm biography claims judgments for plaintiffs exceeding $1 billion across his career, but that figure is self-reported; I found no independently verified verdict figures for the tracked matters, several of which appear to have settled or been terminated without public judgments.

PTAB/IPR practice and key partners. The firm has a meaningful, if modestly scaled, patent-owner IPR/PGR defense practice: it defended Flexiworld against Unified Patents (IPR2022-00775) and Roku (PGR2021-00111), Velos Media against Unified Patents (IPR2019-00194), and Unification Technologies against Micron (IPR2021-00940/00941). PTAB filings show Brent Bumgardner and Robert A. "Bobby" Delafield II as lead counsel on these matters, with Justin Kimble and Jonathan Rastegar as back-up. Practice leaders otherwise are founding/managing partner Ed Nelson III, founding partner Eric Albritton (who appears to have left the firm around 2021 based on his termination in docket records), and Chicago partner Timothy E. Grochocinski, a former InnovaLaw founder who has handled multiple Flexiworld matters.