Nathan (Nate) Engels is a principal attorney in the firm’s litigation practice. Nate is a seasoned intellectual property attorney with extensive experience handling complex patent disputes, appellate proceedings, and strategic IP counseling across a wide range of technologies. Among other experience, Nate worked as an administrative patent judge at the US Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where he presided over inter partes reviews and ex parte appeals involving electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering technologies, including matters involving semiconductors, telecommunications, signal processing, audio/video encoding, power generation, aircraft engines, and oil and gas equipment. Nate also has extensive experience litigating patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets in district courts and at the Federal Circuit.
Clients and colleagues value Nate’s ability to combine technical fluency with practical legal strategy. Drawing on experience from private practice, in-house roles, and the US Patent Office, Nate approaches intellectual property matters with precision, efficiency, and a deep understanding of how business objectives intersect with patent protection and litigation risk.
Nate earned a Juris Doctor from The University of Texas School of Law, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from The University of Texas at Austin through the Engineering Honors Program.