Brian K. Erickson

Representative Cases

• SITO Mobile R&D IP et al v. FloSports, Inc. - Representing a well-known live streaming company in a patent infringement matter regarding media streaming and routing technologies.
• Neodron v. Microsoft Corp. and HP, Inc. (W.D.Tex. and ITC) – Representing multiple parties in the Western District of Texas and International Trade Commission (-1162) related to touchscreen mobile devices.
• Represented a multinational technology company in multiple patent suits filed by a serial plaintiff regarding Bluetooth, cellular, alert, passcode and software technologies. Soon after a successful transfer of all proceedings to the Northern District of California and successful IPRs, a favorable settlement was achieved.
• Represented Itron and Landis+Gyr Technologies in a series of patent infringement lawsuits in the Western District of Texas regarding application management within computing systems, as well as operational support systems. Soon after scheduling Markman/Claim Construction hearing winning motions to transfer from the Waco Division to the Austin Divisions, the cases settled in complete favor.
• CXT Systems, Inc. v. The Container Store Group, Inc. – Represented The Container Store in multi-patent case in the Eastern District of Texas. The case involved allegations of infringement against various website functions and settled favorably upon summary judgment.
• Represented a DVR manufacturer in offensive and defensive litigation involving six patents with claims in excess of four billion dollars. Case settled so favorably that the competitor's stock price dropped 20% the day the terms were announced. Within a month of the settlement, the only major customers at issue announced they were moving away from the competitor's DVRs.
• Represented a cellular telephone manufacturer against competitor in offensive and defensive litigation involving twenty-five patents and antitrust issues.
• Represented a cellular telephone manufacturer against competitor in the International Trade Commission in an investigation involving five patents asserted against certain instructions in the ARM instruction set.
• Represented semiconductor manufacturer against competitor in multiple offensive and defensive litigations involving dozens of patents related to CPU and chipset technology and related reexaminations in N.D.Cal., W.D.Tex., UK, Germany and Taiwan.
• Represented a software manufacturer against competitor in offensive and defensive litigation involving six patents related to virtual machine monitors and operating systems.
• Represented a medical device manufacturer against competitor in litigation involving one patent related to spinal implant technology.
• Represented optical drive manufacturer against competitor in multi-patent infringement litigations involving optical drives.
• Represented memory interface designer against a semiconductor memory manufacturer in litigation involving a dozen patents related to memory bus interface technology.
• Represented a computer manufacturer against former operating company in litigation involving eight patents direct to instruction set technology.
• Represented a cable company in litigation involving five patents asserted against search technology and related trade secret, breach of contract, and unfair competition claims.
• Represented a cellular telephone manufacturer against former operating company in litigation involving one patent asserted against MMS messaging.
• Represented a computer manufacturer in litigation involving one patent asserted against JPEG encoding and a second patent asserted against automatic gain control.
• Represented an online learning company against competitor in litigation involving three patents in three different jurisdictions.
• Represented two computer manufacturers in litigation involving seven patents related to blade server technology.
• Represented a cellular telephone manufacturer in litigation involving one patent related to messaging software for VoIP phones.