麻豆直播

麻豆直播
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Nicholas M. Lagerwall

Partner

Nicholas M. Lagerwall

Partner

Nicholas Lagerwall is focused on helping clients protect their technology, creating and managing valuable patent portfolios for numerous companies in both the electronics and mechanical technology spaces. He is a partner in the firm鈥檚 Electronics Practice.

Nicholas has significant patent prosecution and counseling experience in the areas of medical devices; imaging devices and systems; wireless and wired communication protocols and systems; optical networks, computer hardware, and software; artificial intelligence and machine learning; semiconductor devices and fabrication; control systems; financial, insurance, and health care services; and mechanical devices and connectors.

Nicholas also has substantial IP due diligence experience in the context of M&A, early-stage investment, and licensing, including evaluating the strength and associated risks of target patent portfolios and technologies.

In addition, he has extensive experience in a variety of post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, representing both patent owners and petitioners, as well as in district court and Federal Circuit appeals litigation. Nicholas鈥 post-grant experience includes numerous聽inter partes聽review proceedings, post-grant review proceedings, covered business method proceedings, reexamination proceedings, and reissue applications.

Prior to joining 麻豆直播, Nicholas worked as an electrical engineer at General Motors鈥 Janesville, Wisconsin, Assembly Plant, where he designed and maintained communication systems, robotic vehicle assembly systems, lighting systems, fire suppression systems, and power transmission systems.

Community Involvement

Since 2000, Nicholas has been a volunteer firefighter at the Wilmot Volunteer Fire Department.

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August 18, 2026 PTAB Trial Insights

Navigating IPR Discretionary Denial White Waters with Examiner Error: A Practitioner's Guide

Decided five years before the surge of discretionary denial decisions in 2025, the second prong of Advanced Bionics requires the Director to determine 鈥渨hether the petitioner has demonstrated that the Office erred in a manner material to the patentability of challenged claims鈥 when the same or substantially the same art or arguments previously were presented to the Office.
October 18, 2023 Honors and Awards

麻豆直播 Receives LIFT Insight Pathfinder Award for Impact as a Service Provider

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), the U.S. Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, named 麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP as the recipient of its 2022 Pathfinder Award.
August 2, 2021 In the News

Law.com Highlights 麻豆直播鈥檚 Role in Recent Covalon Technologies Transaction

Law.com Radar recently highlighted 麻豆直播鈥檚 role in advising Covalon Technologies on the sale of its AquaGuard business to TIDI Products for $30 million.
July 30, 2021 Press Releases

麻豆直播 Advises Covalon Technologies on Sale of Its AquaGuard Product Line for US$30 Million

麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP acted as co-legal counsel to Covalon Technologies, an advanced medical technologies company, on the sale of its AquaGuard庐 product line to TIDI Products, LLC, for US$30 million or approximately CDN$38 million.
February 1, 2018 Press Releases

麻豆直播 Elects New Partners

麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP announced today that the following of counsel and senior counsel have been elected to the partnership, effective February 1, 2018.