Brady Cox

• Representing one of the world’s largest communications and IT technology companies in complex multiforum patent disputes with its largest competitors.
• Defending a large computer manufacturer against infringement suits by nonpracticing entities based on patents allegedly essential to various wireless standards.
• Representing a marine electronics manufacturer in asserting its patents against its main competitor before the International Trade Commission.
• Performing clearance searches and freedom-to-operate analysis for utility meter technologies and networks.
• Performed detailed noninfringement investigations to defend against claims brought by patent trolls, which contributed to the early settlement of multiple cases.
• Defended a biotechnology company against claims by its competitor that its tissue processing patent was invalid and unenforceable.
• Defended a large computer manufacturer against claims that cryptographic modules in its computers infringe patents involving random number generation. 
• Defended a large computer manufacturer against infringement claims by a research university in a suit related to thin film and LED technologies. 
• Represented a minor child in immigration proceedings.
• Negotiating agreements regarding intellectual property rights, including rights for a U.S. importer and distributor of original Renaissance art and reproductions.

Brady Cox is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group in our Dallas office. Brady assists his clients with complex patent disputes and has experience with patents and cases involving a wide variety of technologies, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications and cryptography. He has represented clients against their competitors or nonpracticing entities and has brought and defended patent disputes before the International Trade Commission and in U.S. district courts across the country, including in the Eastern District of Texas. He is also admitted to practice before the Federal Circuit.

Brady has substantial experience resolving patent disputes outside of the context of litigation. He analyzes patent portfolios (both offensively and defensively) and negotiates patent license agreements.

Brady has a technical background in physics and nanotechnology, which enables him to provide both technical and legal advice to his clients. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a Dillard Fellow.

Languages

• Tagalog

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• University of Virginia (J.D., 2010)
• Brigham Young University (B.S., 2007)