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The 2024 Central Texas Federal Bench Bar Conference

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Morrison Foerster is a Presenting Sponsor of the 2024 inaugural Central Texas Federal Bench Bar Conference, a gathering of the judiciary and legal practitioners primarily serving the Austin, San Antonio, and Waco Divisions of the Western District of Texas (WDTX). 

Morrison Foerster is a Presenting Sponsor of the 2024 inaugural Central Texas Federal Bench Bar Conference, a gathering of the judiciary and legal practitioners primarily serving the Austin, San Antonio, and Waco Divisions of the Western District of Texas (WDTX). The Conference will provide at least 6 hours of continuing legal education related to federal court practice and current trends and issues in our Divisions of the WDTX. The Conference aims to facilitate professionalism, legal education, and networking opportunities among lawyers of all specialties and to provide a forum for bringing together the federal bench and the bar outside of the courtroom or litigation context. IP Litigation Partner Brian Nash is a Board Member and will be a moderator on the panel titled "Trial Mistakes and Lessons Learned," featuring the Hon. Alan Albright, the Hon. Derek Gilliland, and Steve McConnico.<a href="https://www.centraltxbenchbar.com/" target="_blank">Learn more</a>.<hr>

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Brian Nash co-chair's Morrison Foerster’s global IP Litigation Group and cross-disciplinary Intellectual Property Group. He is also the Managing Partner of the firm's Austin office. An established intellectual property trial attorney and a leader in the Western District of Texas, Brian has managed more than 250 cases involving intellectual property and technology in district courts across the nation, before the PTAB, at the ITC, and on appeal in the Federal Circuit, including matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights.Clients also turn to Brian for his ability to analyze and simplify highly technical issues through a legal lens. He combines his experience as a registered patent lawyer and his engineering degree to counsel clients in a wide range of technologies, including semiconductors, programmable logic devices, software, blockchain, e-commerce, digital media, video games, virtual reality, wireless standards, aluminum alloy composition, container fabrication, hydrocarbon exploration, search marketing, geolocation, encryption, image processing, and liquid crystal displays.Brian is a recognized, leading practitioner in the Western District of Texas, where he has handled over 80 cases, including over 50 before Judge Albright. He founded the committee to create the Honorable Lee Yeakel IP Inn of Court, the first IP-focused Inn of Court in Texas, and he currently serves as president. Further, Brian is a board member and past president for the Austin Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and is a past president of the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association.Brian served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Won a dispositive claim construction ruling that resulted in a dismissal following a Markman hearing before Judge Albright on behalf of a Fortune 50 semiconductor company on a patent related to field programmable gate arrays.</li><li>Won a final written decision holding all claims unpatentable and denying patent owner’s motion to amend in an inter partes review for a Fortune 50 semiconductor company on a patent related to field programmable gate arrays.</li><li>Representing Cimarex Energy Co. in defending against a multi-patent case involving e-fracking technologies.</li><li>Advising Anheuser-Busch in an instituted derivation proceeding related to aluminum alloy composition technology that is pending at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.</li></ul>

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Patent Litigation

The 2024 Central Texas Federal Bench Bar Conference

01 Mar 2024 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST