Cameron M. Nelson

Cameron M. Nelson focuses his practice on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation. Cameron has trial experience in each of these areas in a number of forums, including U.S. District Courts and the International Trade Commission, as well as related appeals before the Seventh Circuit and Federal Circuit.

Cameron has deep knowledge and experience in pursuing anti-counterfeiting litigation, and has conducted dozens of counterfeiting seizures alongside non-litigation anti-counterfeiting strategies. He also has wide-ranging knowledge regarding the use of computer forensics, which he uses in anti-counterfeiting investigations as well as employee theft and trade secret theft investigations. Cameron’s patent litigation experience encompasses a wide array of technologies, including consumer electronics, chemical manufacturing, digital communications and digital signal processing. In copyright litigation, he has asserted copyright claims on behalf of a number of clients, including jury trials, and has also defended copyright claims. Cameron is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has experience with adversarial proceedings before the USPTO, such as trademark oppositions and inter partes reviews.

Concentrations

•Trademark, trade dress, and anti-counterfeiting litigation
•Anti-counterfeiting policing and strategy
•Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)
•Enforcement of intellectual property rights via U.S. Customs Service, domain name registrars, takedown requests and asset seizure
•Copyright litigation
•Employee theft / trade secret litigation
•Patent litigation
•Patent, trademark and copyright prosecution
•Technical areas of experience:
•Automotive transmissions
•Furniture manufacture and design
•High performance computing methods
•Digital signal processing, including wireless communication protocols and MPEG4 AVC / H.264
•Video encoding
•Materials and fatigue
•Liquid crystal displays
•Computer forensics

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, World Trademark Review, Illinois, Enforcement and Litigation, 'WTR 1000,' 2023-2026
•Listed, Leading Lawyers Network, 2018-2026
•Emerging Lawyer, 2015-2017
•Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Illinois Super Lawyers, 'Rising Star,' 2012-2016, 2021-2022
•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, 'Intellectual Property - Trademarks: Litigation,' 2020