Nagendra "Nick" Setty

Managing Principal, Fish & Richardson

Nick Setty is Managing Principal of Fish & Richardson's Atlanta office. He has a national practice that emphasizes all aspects of intellectual property litigation and counseling, including patent, trademark, trade secrets, and copyright cases, with a special focus on patent litigation. Mr. Setty has served as lead counsel in more than 70 cases, spanning a wide range of industries and technologies.

Chambers USA has recognized Mr. Setty for his experience and expertise in intellectual property law as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" (2004-2009). His peers have identified him as a "Georgia Super Lawyer" (2004-2009) for outstanding achievement in intellectual property litigation. Mr. Setty is listed in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition (2010) and has been named to "Georgia's Legal Elite" in Georgia Trend magazine (2006-2008; feature article 2007).

Mr. Setty has handled numerous patent, trade secret, and unfair competition cases involving parties in the software, telecommunications, and electronics industries. He has successfully represented clients in the areas of optical disk drives, LCD televisions, parental control systems, Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), speech analytics systems, database and menu driven template systems, wireless network systems, network security systems, messaging security systems, debit card database and management systems, analog and digital video technologies, anti-spam and virus scanning technologies, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, memory management systems, notification and messaging systems, satellite communications, screen capture and monitoring systems, short message system (SMS) communications, simulation technologies, time division multiplex (TDM) switches and systems, voice and data switching technologies, voice mail systems, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems.

Mr. Setty has extensive experience with chemical, pharmaceutical, and mechanical technologies, including anti-HIV therapeutics, antibiotics, cardiac therapeutics, fine and industrial chemicals, large-scale manufacturing equipment, ophthalmic pharmaceutical formulations, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) remediation.

Drawing on his broad range of legal and technical experience, Mr. Setty has spoken at numerous intellectual property and patent law conferences, including the ABA Annual Meeting (2005-2007), which he co-chaired (2005-2006), State Bar of Georgia IP Institute (2008-2009), Minority Corporate Counsel Association (2008), LSI Biotechnology Conference (2005), National South Asian Bar Association Annual Meetings (2004-2007), NAPABA Annual Meeting (2005), Practicing Law Institute Patent Litigation Conference (2003-2009; co-chair 2007-2000), LSI's Patent Litigation Conference (2004-2005; co-chair 2005); LSI's Intellectual Property Litigation seminar (2001), and the ABA IPL Section's Annual Spring CLE (1999). Mr. Setty has written articles on legal topics that have appeared in the ABA IPL Newsletter, Technology Law Newsletter, and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law.