Nelson Bumgardner Conroy

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Firm overview. Nelson Bumgardner Conroy P.C. (formerly Nelson Bumgardner Albritton P.C.) is a patent and complex-litigation boutique founded in 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas, where its flagship office remains (3131 W. 7th St., Cultural District). The firm added a Dallas office in September 2021 — announced as headed by principal Pat Conroy — and maintains a Greater Chicago presence (Orland Park/Burr Ridge, Illinois); it previously listed a Longview, Texas office tied to former name partner Eric Albritton. On size, the firm's own news page states it opened with six attorneys and has since "nearly tripled our roster," placing it at roughly 15–20 lawyers — consistent with Martindale's listing of eight lawyers in the Fort Worth office. It is not an AmLaw-ranked or Chambers-banded firm as far as I could verify; no reliable ranking or revenue data was located, so any "BigLaw" characterization would be wrong. Its own practice description is that of "a litigation boutique" handling patent enforcement or defense, inter partes review, and complex commercial/technology disputes, using contingency, flat, hourly, and blended fee arrangements.

IP litigation specialty. The tracked docket is concentrated in electronics and standards-based technologies rather than life sciences. Recurring areas include wireless connectivity and wireless output/streaming (the Flexiworld Technologies campaigns against Sony, LG, HP, Roku, Hisense, Lexmark, and Indeed; Wi-LAN v. TCT Mobile; Arlington Technologies v. T-Mobile), flat-panel and liquid-crystal display technology (Bishop Display Tech v. LG Display, Innolux, BOE Technology, and TCL), automotive electronics and in-vehicle displays (Innovative Display Technologies v. Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Volkswagen, TomTom, and Sprint), and semiconductor/memory (Palisade Technologies v. Micron and Yangtze Memory Technologies). Perceptive Automata v. Tesla (counsel role) touches autonomous-vehicle/perception software. The firm's Chicago-area team, led by Timothy Grochocinski and Charles Austin Ginnings, anchors the software and networking side of the docket.

Side preference. The firm is overwhelmingly plaintiff-side in its tracked work — 80 plaintiff appearances against 18 defendant appearances — and functions as outside enforcement counsel for patent owners and licensing entities running multi-defendant, portfolio-based campaigns against large operating companies. Roughly 94 of 98 tracked appearances are as lead counsel, which is consistent with the "lead counsel, not local counsel" posture described on its profile pages. The defense-side work it does appear in is largely PTAB-side defense of the same patent portfolios it asserts.

Notable matters. Prominent tracked cases include Flexiworld Technologies v. Sony Corp. (E.D. Tex., Judge Rodney Gilstrap), resolved by joint stipulation dismissing all claims and counterclaims with prejudice and each side bearing its own costs — no merits ruling; the same Flexiworld portfolio supports cases against LG, HP, Roku, and Hisense and drew multiple IPR petitions. Other high-profile campaigns include Bishop Display Tech v. LG Display, Innolux, BOE Technology, and TCL (TFT-LCD modules supplied to Dell, HP, Lenovo), Palisade Technologies v. Micron and YMTC (filed in W.D. Tex., Midland Division, October 2024), and Wi-LAN v. TCT Mobile. Publicly documented outcomes are thinner than the filing volume: several of these matters terminated by dismissal or settlement, and I was unable to independently verify reported damages verdicts. A Super Lawyers profile for founding partner Ed Nelson references a jury verdict in an E.D. Tex. (Tyler Division) patent case around 2016, but I could not confirm the case name or amount from a primary source, so it should be treated as unverified.

PTAB / IPR practice. Post-grant work is a genuine, if secondary, part of the practice, and it runs almost entirely on the patent-owner side rather than as a petitioner's shop. PTAB filings identify the firm as counsel for patent owners Flexiworld Technologies (IPR2021-00714, Roku v. Flexiworld; IPR2022-00775; PGR2021-00112), Velos Media (IPR2019-00194), and 802 Systems in its Cisco litigation. The structured appearance data includes PTAB-specific roles (lead counsel (IPR), back-up counsel (PTAB)), reinforcing that pattern. I found no public report establishing a firm-wide IPR filing volume, so no scale figure should be quoted.

Key partners. Ed Nelson III is a founding partner/director in Fort Worth and the firm's most visible campaign strategist; Brent N. Bumgardner is a founding principal in Fort Worth and the lead PTAB counsel for the Flexiworld portfolio; Patrick J. Conroy heads the Dallas office and leads several display and wireless matters; and Timothy E. Grochocinski (Chicago area) is the most frequently appearing attorney in the tracked docket. Justin B. Kimble, Jonathan H. Rastegar, Ryan P. Griffin, and Charles Austin Ginnings are also prominent in the firm's filings.

Caveat: rankings, attorney counts beyond the firm's own "nearly tripled" statement, and specific damages outcomes could not be confirmed from Chambers, AmLaw, or a verified verdict source; the above relies on the firm website, court/PTAB dockets, and Martindale/lawyers.com profiles.