Love, Nathaniel

Sidley Austin LLP | Partner

Nat Love is a trial lawyer who helps companies across the life sciences and information technology fields resolve challenging problems presented by patent, trade secret, and other commercial litigation. Nat tackles complex economic issues, including those presented in preliminary injunction proceedings and by patent and trade secret damages claims. He also has extensive experience in patent and breach of contract cases involving patents declared essential to technology standards, and has litigated multiple injunctions in such cases on appeal. Nat leads the drafting of appellate briefs in his matters arising in the district courts and the USPTO and has argued multiple cases in the courts of appeal, including the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Federal Circuits. In addition to his work for clients in the software and mobile device industries, Nat works with companies in the insurance, financial, and aviation industries on matters concerning their information technology, as well as with companies in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries in cases involving biologics, drug-eluting stents, catheters, and surgical guides. Nat holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University with a focus in artificial intelligence, and began his legal career with a clerkship for the Honorable Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.