Joshua B. Brady

Nixon Vanderhye Shareholder Josh Brady is an experienced federal litigator and registered patent attorney who provides counsel on a wide range of intellectual property issues to his clients. Josh draws from deep and well-rounded experience, including patent litigation and prosecution, trademark protection and enforcement, licensing and software contracts, and IP counseling. His practice involves technology from a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemical and biochemical, medical devices, firearms and weapons systems, defense technologies, software, automotive, and aeronautical.

Josh represents clients in all phases of intellectual property disputes, licensing negotiations, and strategic product development. He assists businesses with identifying and enhancing the value of their intellectual property assets and critical competitive advantages, as well as portfolio management, due diligence, and freedom-to-operate analyses. Many of Josh’s clients, ranging from seed-stage startups to established multinational corporations, seek his assistance with aligning intellectual property strategies with their business goals. Josh also helps government contractors protect and enforce intellectual property rights in connection with performance under federal contracts and teaming agreements, even in instances where the U.S. government may be the offending party.

His first-chair litigation experience includes pre-filing investigations, pleadings, and motions drafting; fact and expert discovery motions practice; trial; and settlement negotiations. In addition, Josh has extensive patent prosecution experience in chemical, medical, software, and mechanical arts, including reexamination proceedings and reissue applications. He also draws on his past work in litigating and advising on licensing issues to generate well-rounded strategies for portfolio protection and management.

In the modern world of constantly developing new technologies and increasing reliance on intellectual property assets, Josh has a high aptitude for quickly mastering new fields of technical arts and his clients’ business environment. He was recently named by the International Law Office and Lexology as the winner of the 2018 “Client Choice Award for Intellectual Property: Patents in Virginia,” and is a frequent speaker on various intellectual property topics.

Josh previously served as an intellectual property trial attorney with the Department of Justice, where he represented the federal government in affirmative and defensive patent and trademark infringement suits; trademark registration, licensing and policing; and false patent marking and counterfeit goods cases. He also counseled federal agencies on a wide variety of intellectual property issues.

During his undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech, and law school at the University of Richmond, Josh worked for university technology transfer operations, combining his engineering background with business and legal principles to commercialize academic research.