Nick Evoy is a patent lawyer with deep experience representing innovative companies in high-stakes intellectual property disputes, trials, and appeals.
Nick’s practice focuses on business-critical patent litigation before U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), as well as appeals to the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nick has tried cases before judges and juries. He has examined key witnesses at trial, argued case-dispositive motions, and taken and defended countless fact and expert witness depositions. As a registered patent attorney, he has also presented oral argument in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the PTAB.
In addition to his litigation work, Nick assists clients with patent-related appeals. He routinely represents clients before the Federal Circuit, including as amicus curiae. He has also represented clients at the Supreme Court, where he helped secure a grant of a writ of certiorari and a landmark merits-stage Supreme Court victory in Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2019).
Nick is an engineer by education, having received a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to receiving his law degree, he worked for the better part of a decade as a Primary Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patents relating to diagnostic testing, medical imaging, and surgical devices. He previously conducted biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Nick has been recognized by Managing Intellectual Property as a “Notable Practitioner” (2025) and a “Rising Star” (2019-2024). He has also been named by Washington DC Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” (2020-2025) and as “One to Watch in America” by Best Lawyers (2026).
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