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Ed Nelson III
Director and Founding Partner
Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC
Ed Nelson III is Director and a founding partner of Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC, a firm built to help its clients navigate their most important legal issues. This includes patent enforcement, inter partes review, and technology-based, complex commercial disputes and appeals. Ed specializes in multi-faceted, portfolio-based litigation campaigns and welcomes the challenge of implementing deployment strategies adapted to each engagement’s inimitable circumstances.
Recent Articles by Ed Nelson III
Rule 36 v. Section 144: Will the Supreme Court Answer the Call?
In early 2017, Peter Harter and Gene Quinn co-authored six articles for IPWatchdog about the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) excessive use of Rule 36. They observed that the CAFC was “placing America’s inventors under siege” by habitually affirming decisions on appeal with one word—“affirmed”—thus dispensing with any opinion or reasoned analysis. The CAFC has shown no signs of curbing this practice, and it’s time for the U.S. Supreme Court to address it.