Larry S. Nixon :: Nixon & Vanderhye PC

Phone: 703-816-4002 Fax: 703-816-4100 e-mail: lsn@nixonvan.com Education: University of Illinois (B.S., with honors, 1965; M.S., 1966) Georgetown University (J.D., 1971)	LARRY S. NIXON had been associated with the firm of Cushman, Darby & Cushman since 1969 (a partner since 1972). Before that, he was associated in 1966 with the Washington Patent Operation of the General Electric Company while he attended Georgetown University Law School in Washington D.C. (graduating with a J.D. degree in February 1971 after an interruption for military service in the U.S. Army). He is currently a member of the bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia and a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Arbitration Association. He has been admitted to practice before many of the Federal courts and is currently registered for alternate dispute resolution services with the AIPLA and on the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals at the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). He was listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2006 and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1995. During his past 35-plus years of experience in the field of intellectual property law, Mr. Nixon has participated in scores of patent litigations in United States District Courts located all over the country. He has given expert testimony on patent law issues in several lawsuits. He has also maintained an active administrative practice in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by personally writing and/or prosecuting many hundreds of U.S. patents. Furthermore, Mr. Nixon has been active in lecturing and writing (both in the U.S. and abroad) about computer law topics based in part on his own personal experience relating to the preparation and prosecution of "computer software" patent applications and/or litigations involving similar issues. Mr. Nixon's technical background includes both B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Illinois. His master's degree thesis concerned a radiating slot spacecraft antenna. He worked his way through college in various University laboratories (e.g. the Antenna Laboratory and the Digital Computer Laboratory) by building and testing prototypes and models and/or by writing and operating computer programs to simulate same and by summer jobs with technical responsibilities (e.g. for the Illinois Power Company, the Collins Radio Company, the Illinois State Water Survey and Lawrence Radiation Laboratories in Livermore, California). Because of his technical background and continuing experience with higher level technical issues, Mr. Nixon's forte includes patent law opinions, litigation and/or administrative practice where high level technical understanding is of great benefit.

Phone:
703-816-4002

Fax:
703-816-4100

Education:
University of Illinois (B.S., with honors, 1965; M.S., 1966)

Georgetown University (J.D., 1971)

LARRY S. NIXON had been associated with the firm of Cushman, Darby & Cushman since 1969 (a partner since 1972). Before that, he was associated in 1966 with the Washington Patent Operation of the General Electric Company while he attended Georgetown University Law School in Washington D.C. (graduating with a J.D. degree in February 1971 after an interruption for military service in the U.S. Army). He is currently a member of the bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia and a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Arbitration Association. He has been admitted to practice before many of the Federal courts and is currently registered for alternate dispute resolution services with the AIPLA and on the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals at the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). He was listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2006 and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1995.

During his past 35-plus years of experience in the field of intellectual property law, Mr. Nixon has participated in scores of patent litigations in United States District Courts located all over the country. He has given expert testimony on patent law issues in several lawsuits.

He has also maintained an active administrative practice in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by personally writing and/or prosecuting many hundreds of U.S. patents. Furthermore, Mr. Nixon has been active in lecturing and writing (both in the U.S. and abroad) about computer law topics based in part on his own personal experience relating to the preparation and prosecution of "computer software" patent applications and/or litigations involving similar issues.

Mr. Nixon's technical background includes both B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Illinois. His master's degree thesis concerned a radiating slot spacecraft antenna. He worked his way through college in various University laboratories (e.g. the Antenna Laboratory and the Digital Computer Laboratory) by building and testing prototypes and models and/or by writing and operating computer programs to simulate same and by summer jobs with technical responsibilities (e.g. for the Illinois Power Company, the Collins Radio Company, the Illinois State Water Survey and Lawrence Radiation Laboratories in Livermore, California).

Because of his technical background and continuing experience with higher level technical issues, Mr. Nixon's forte includes patent law opinions, litigation and/or administrative practice where high level technical understanding is of great benefit.