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Litigation Funding and Legal Finance Insight and Analysis

Erick Robinson is a partner at leading IP law firm Bochner PLLC where he is Chair of the Legal Finance Group and also Chair of Patent Litigation.  He has almost 25 years of experience in multiple area of legal finance, including litigation funding and insurance.  Mr. Robinson created this blog to provide a background on the world of litigation finance as well as updates in the related law and market.  

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Erick Robinson has almost 25 years of experience in both legal finance and patent litigation. He created this blog to provide interesting thoughts and news on the world of litigation funding — especially as it relates to patent litigation. 

 

As the chair of Bochner’s Patent Litigation Group, Erick Robinson manages and tries “bet-the-business” patent cases on both the plaintiff and defendant side for clients from Fortune 100 companies to sole inventors. An experienced trial lawyer, patent litigator, and IP strategist with a technical background in computer science, electronics, and biotechnology, he fiercely protects his clients’ patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property. A U.S. patent attorney, he also has broad experience in patent monetization and licensing, litigating and trying trade secret disputes, and litigating inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In addition, Erick is a certified Texas mediator.

 

Erick has managed and tried patent cases in the U.S. and around the world, including multi-jurisdictional cases in China, Germany, France, Brazil, Vietnam, and Singapore. Domestically, he focuses on patent litigation in federal district courts as well as the International Trade Commission and spends much of his time in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, where in addition to serving as lead counsel, also assists other firms and attorneys as local counsel.

Erick has 25 years of patent litigation experience at large law firms and companies. In addition to his time at top law firms, he also previously served as Director of Patents for Qualcomm and as Senior Patent Counsel at Red Hat. He also served as Director of Patent Litigation at a top Chinese law firm. Erick is a trusted authority on patent and antitrust law in the U.S., China, and Europe and has been selected as one of the Leading 300 IP Strategists Worldwide by Intellectual Asset Management since 2014 as well as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for Intellectual Property Litigation.

 

In the past, he has authored the China Patent Blog and Waco Patent Blog and has published dozens of articles on U.S. and Chinese patent litigation. Erick is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Intellectual Asset Management, and other publications on U.S. and Chinese patent and antitrust issues as well as litigation funding. 

Erick Robinson is responsible for the content of this website.

The information on this website is for general information purposes only. Nothing on this site should be taken as legal advice for any individual case or situation. This information is not intended to create, and receipt or viewing does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship.

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