Nicholas M. Lagerwall

Partner

Nicholas M. Lagerwall

Partner

Nicholas Lagerwall is focused on helping clients protect their technology, creating and managing valuable patent portfolios for numerous companies in both the electronics and mechanical technology spaces. He is a partner in the firm’s Electronics Practice.

Nicholas has significant patent prosecution and counseling experience in the areas of medical devices; imaging devices and systems; wireless and wired communication protocols and systems; optical networks, computer hardware, and software; artificial intelligence and machine learning; semiconductor devices and fabrication; control systems; financial, insurance, and health care services; and mechanical devices and connectors.

Nicholas also has substantial IP due diligence experience in the context of M&A, early-stage investment, and licensing, including evaluating the strength and associated risks of target patent portfolios and technologies.

In addition, he has extensive experience in a variety of post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, representing both patent owners and petitioners, as well as in district court and Federal Circuit appeals litigation. Nicholas’ post-grant experience includes numerous inter partes review proceedings, post-grant review proceedings, covered business method proceedings, reexamination proceedings, and reissue applications.

Prior to joining Foley, Nicholas worked as an electrical engineer at General Motors’ Janesville, Wisconsin, Assembly Plant, where he designed and maintained communication systems, robotic vehicle assembly systems, lighting systems, fire suppression systems, and power transmission systems.

Community Involvement

Since 2000, Nicholas has been a volunteer firefighter at the Wilmot Volunteer Fire Department.

18 October 2023 Honors and Awards

Foley Receives LIFT Insight Pathfinder Award for Impact as a Service Provider

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), the U.S. Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, named Foley & Lardner LLP as the recipient of its 2022 Pathfinder Award.
02 August 2021 In the News

Law.com Highlights Foley’s Role in Recent Covalon Technologies Transaction

Law.com Radar recently highlighted Foley’s role in advising Covalon Technologies on the sale of its AquaGuard business to TIDI Products for $30 million.
30 July 2021 Press Releases

Foley Advises Covalon Technologies on Sale of Its AquaGuard Product Line for US$30 Million

Foley & Lardner LLP acted as co-legal counsel to Covalon Technologies, an advanced medical technologies company, on the sale of its AquaGuard® product line to TIDI Products, LLC, for US$30 million or approximately CDN$38 million.
20 June 2018 Events

Protecting Your Innovations: Critical Updates on New Patenting Guidelines for the Software and Life Sciences Industries

Foley is pleased to sponsor the panel discussion entitled, “Protecting Your Innovations: Critical Updates on New Patenting Guidelines for the Software and Life Sciences Industries”, on June 20, 2018, presented by BioForward Wisconsin.
01 February 2018 Press Releases

Foley Elects New Partners

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that the following of counsel and senior counsel have been elected to the partnership, effective February 1, 2018.