Nix, Kelsey I.

Kelsey Nix has more than 25 years of experience representing clients in their most important patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark cases. Clients describe him as a strategic and creative litigator who focuses on the end result.

Kelsey has represented companies in the federal courts and the ITC in a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, banking and trading platforms, encryption, electronic commerce, clean technology such as light emitting diodes, microprocessors, aviation, telephony, security systems, modems, NiMH batteries, and machine tools.

Kelsey has been lead counsel in more than 30 cases. Exemplary cases as lead counsel include successfully defending an international spirits manufacturer against patent infringement allegations in the ITC and in New York and Texas district courts and obtaining a complete defense victory on summary judgment in a copyright and trademark infringement case concerning aircraft maintenance manuals.

Kelsey is a member of the ABA, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the ITC Trial Lawyers Association. He has served on the editorial boards of Intellectual Property 360 (2015) and the AIPLA Quarterly Journal (2012-2014), the board of the Columbia University Engineering Alumni Association, IPO's standards setting committee, and AIPLA's trade secrets committee.

Kelsey has been an invited lecturer at conferences sponsored by many leading IP associations. He has published articles on patent law and has been quoted as an authority on patent law in many influential publications, including The National Law Journal.