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Law Office of Floyd R. Nation: The San Antonio Patent Litigator Who Won a $46 Million Jury Verdict on Semiconductor Patents

Floyd Nation left an engineering career at Humble Oil, now ExxonMobil, to go to law school, then spent decades as a partner at two national IP litigation powerhouses before bringing that trial record home to a solo San Antonio practice. Along the way, he tried a semiconductor patent case to a jury verdict that found the patents valid, infringed, and enforceable — and awarded $46 million.

Origin and Background

Law Office of Floyd R. Nation is located at 4007 McCullough Avenue, Suite 483, San Antonio, TX 78212, confirmed through the firm’s own website. Floyd R. Nation received his Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Texas School of Law after working in production and reservoir engineering for Humble Oil, now ExxonMobil. He is admitted to practice in Texas and Louisiana, before the U.S. Supreme Court, various federal circuit and district courts, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Before founding his solo practice, Nation was a partner at Arnold, White & Durkee and then Winston & Strawn, two firms nationally recognized for patent litigation, bringing more than 40 years of trial experience to his current practice.

Practice Concentration

Nation’s practice concentrates specifically on patent infringement litigation, along with intellectual property mediation and alternative dispute resolution, covering technologies including medical devices, oil field and construction equipment, food processing, semiconductor devices and manufacturing, software, and pharmaceuticals. He has completed 40 hours of mediation training at the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Houston Law Center and has conducted more than 15 mediations. He also taught the course on patent litigation as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law for many years. See this San Antonio Intellectual Property directory for how this litigation-only solo practice compares to prosecution-focused boutiques and large-firm satellite offices also serving Bexar County.

Notable Work / Track Record

Nation’s published case history includes named, documented outcomes rather than generalized claims: as trial counsel in Crystal Semiconductor Corp. v. Opti Inc. in the Western District of Texas, a jury found the patents at issue valid, infringed, and enforceable, awarding $46 million; in Asyst Technologies, Inc. v. Empak Corp., he obtained a favorable judgment as a matter of law holding the opposing patent invalid for obviousness; in Streck Laboratories, Inc. v. Beckman Coulter, an infringement action over hematology instrument controls was favorably settled after eight days of trial; in Deborah Charms v. Guidant Corp., he obtained summary judgment invalidating the plaintiff’s implantable heart defibrillator patent for anticipation; and in Storage Technology Corp. v. Quantum Corp., a multi-patent infringement case over magnetic tape data storage was favorably settled during trial after a successful preliminary injunction hearing. These are self-published case summaries rather than independently re-verified court records, though the case names and courts allow independent confirmation.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published set of itemized, attributed client reviews for Nation across major consumer review platforms, which is common for a litigation-only practice built on referral and institutional reputation rather than direct-to-consumer marketing. His most substantial independent validation instead comes from consistent Super Lawyers selection and a specific characterization by the Who’s Who Legal Guide describing him as a “notable adversary in the area of patent law.”

Beyond the Courtroom

Nation is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, past Chairman of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, past President of the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association, and a founding member and leader of the Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for his undergraduate engineering school.

Recognition for This San Antonio IP Litigator

Awesome Attorneys did not identify Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for Floyd Nation and does not apply “specialist” language on that basis — and separately notes that TBLS does not currently certify a distinct intellectual property specialty in Texas at all. Nation’s recognition instead rests on continuous Texas Super Lawyer selection since the award’s inception, a Chambers USA recognition, and the Who’s Who Legal Guide’s specific characterization of his litigation reputation — peer- and research-driven distinctions rather than a marketing-program listing.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Patent infringement litigation proceeds under federal law in federal district court, and the outcomes Nation has obtained — a jury verdict of validity and infringement, a judgment as a matter of law of invalidity, and summary judgment of invalidity for anticipation — represent three of the primary ways a patent case can resolve short of settlement. Appeals from these rulings go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rather than Texas state appellate courts. None of this is legal advice; a specific patent litigation or licensing matter should be evaluated by a licensed attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Floyd Nation’s clearest differentiator is a documented, forty-year patent litigation record with named cases, courts, and outcomes spanning jury verdicts, judgments as a matter of law, and favorable settlements during trial — a level of case-specific transparency that few solo IP litigators publish. The honest trade-off is that, as with most litigation-only practices, Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published record of consumer-style client reviews, and a solo practice built on institutional-firm-caliber litigation experience is likely to come with corresponding rates and case-selection standards. For a San Antonio company or inventor facing high-stakes patent litigation who wants a solo attorney with two national IP-litigation-firm pedigrees and a specific, verifiable trial record, that combination is a reasonable basis for a shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from the Law Office of Floyd R. Nation’s own website (biography, litigation case summaries, and contact pages), Super Lawyers’ attorney and firm directory listings, and LinkedIn’s professional profile for Floyd Nation.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

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