Nelson Bumgardner Albritton/Conroy

I'll verify the firm's profile before writing.

Firm overview. The firm tracked as "Nelson Bumgardner Albritton/Conroy" is now Nelson Bumgardner Conroy P.C. ("NBC"), the successor name to Nelson Bumgardner Albritton P.C. It is a litigation boutique, not BigLaw: founded in 2008 in Fort Worth by Ed Nelson and Brent Bumgardner, it reported roughly 16 lawyers and 14 partners across three offices in U.S. News–Lawyers.com's firm profile, and its own 15th-anniversary notice (March 2023) said it had "nearly tripled" from its original six attorneys. Headquarters remains Fort Worth (3131 W. 7th St., Suite 300), with an office in Dallas (opened September 2021, headed by Pat Conroy) and a Chicago-area office in Orland Park, Illinois. It is below the AmLaw 200 size threshold; I found no AmLaw, Chambers, or Vault ranking for it. Third-party recognition is limited to Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer rating and Super Lawyers listings for several principals.

IP litigation specialty. NBC's own practice description covers "patent enforcement or defense, inter partes review, and complex commercial and technology-based disputes," plus appeals. Technology coverage reflected in the record is broad rather than concentrated in one field: wireless/telecommunications standards (Wi-Fi 802.11 and Bluetooth authentication were the disputed subject matter in the Flexiworld IPRs), software and consumer electronics/streaming, memory and storage (the Unification Technologies suits against Micron, Dell, HP and others), video coding, medical devices, networking, semiconductors, and mechanical arts. Partner bios (e.g., John Murphy, Chris Granaghan) describe federal-court work in Texas, Delaware, California and Illinois, with contingency and flat-fee arrangements offered.

Side preference. The tracked dataset credits the firm with one appearance, on the plaintiff side, as lead counsel in Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al. The broader public docket record shows a predominantly plaintiff/patent-owner enforcement practice, frequently for NPEs and smaller patent holders: Flexiworld (multiple W.D. Tex. suits against Amazon, Roku and Canon, plus a W.D. Wash. action), Unification Technologies, Spam Blocker, Oceana Innovations, Eighth Street Solutions, Gallio IP, and more recently Arlington Technologies v. NVIDIA and Smart RF v. AT&T. The firm's site states it represents "both plaintiffs and defendants," and it does appear as patent-owner counsel in PTAB proceedings. Treat the "plaintiff-side" characterization as directionally accurate but not exhaustive.

Notable cases and outcomes. The most prominent tracked matter is Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al., No. 6:20-cv-00553 (W.D. Tex., Judge Alan Albright, filed June 22, 2020), with lead counsel Charles Austin Ginnings and Timothy E. Grochocinski; a parallel action proceeded in the Western District of Washington through claim construction (order filed March 2024). Related Flexiworld claims against Canon were voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in August 2021. The firm publicly reported a December 2021 win defending three Unification Technologies patents (U.S. 8,533,406; 8,762,658; 9,632,727) against Micron IPR challenges. Nelson's Super Lawyers profile cites a 2016 patent jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division); that result is only sourced to the profile and I could not independently verify the parties or amount.

PTAB/IPR practice. This is a genuine practice pillar, not an ancillary one. The firm advertises post-grant representation including IPR and CBM review, and its PTAB footprint is visible in the Flexiworld campaign — patent-owner defense across Roku's IPRs (IPR2021-00713/00714, IPR2022-01114), Unified Patents' IPR2022-00775, and Roku's PGR2021-00111/00112, where institution was denied in March 2022 on U.S. Patent 10,846,031. Brent Bumgardner, Robert Delafield, Ginnings, Grochocinski and T. William Kennedy appear repeatedly as PTAB counsel, and John Murphy's bio ties him to the firm's IPR docket and a Federal Circuit argument. No public report quantifies annual petition volume, so I won't estimate it.

Key partners. Edward R. Nelson III (founding principal, Fort Worth; IP and complex commercial litigation, antitrust, appeals; Super Lawyers 2018–2026). Brent N. Bumgardner (founding principal; registered patent attorney, chemical engineering; lead counsel on the Flexiworld IPRs). Patrick J. Conroy (Dallas office head; IP litigation, antitrust). Timothy E. Grochocinski and Charles Austin Ginnings (Orland Park, Illinois; lead trial and PTAB counsel on Flexiworld and the tracked Amazon case). John P. Murphy (partner; IP litigation and post-grant work, ex–Baker Botts/Baker McKenzie) is also notable on the IP side.

Sourcing note: the structured appearance data supplied is authoritative and shows one appearance; the docket- and firm-derived activity described above sits outside that tracked set and comes from firm filings, PTAB records, and the firm's website. Attorney counts, headcount, and financial figures from ZoomInfo/BBB-type aggregators are unreliable and I have excluded them.