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Edward H. Sikorski

Edward H. Sikorski

Of Counsel
San Diego
About

Edward Sikorski concentrates in patent and other intellectual property litigation in Federal District Courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC). 

Edward has experience in complex litigation and has been lead technical counsel in cases involving wireless and network communications, consumer electronics, software and semiconductor circuits, medical devices, sporting goods, electrostatic and inkjet printing, physical material characterization, electro-mechanical vibration, textiles, optical and magnetic recording media and other assorted technologies. He is a former patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office, has experience in patent prosecution and post-issuance proceedings such as Inter Partes Review (IPR) and has also argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 


Areas of FocusIntellectual PropertyLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsLife SciencesTechnologyPatent Litigation
Bar admissionsCaliforniaUnited States Patent and Trademark OfficeVirginia
CourtsUnited States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaUnited States District Court for the Southern District of CaliforniaUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of VirginiaUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

EXPERIENCE

Representative Matters
  • Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien, Inc. – Won summary judgment on all asserted patents for ultrasonic vibration circuits and for mechanical vibration dampening (2014)
  • Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. TiVo, Inc. – Represented Motorola in digital video recorders (DVR) patent litigation (2012-13)
  • Ricoh v. Oki Data – Represented Ricoh in a multi-patent suite at the ITC (Investigation No. 337-TA-619) and the District of Delaware involving electrostatic printers
  • Protecting the patented GPS-type technology of a small company in federal district court
  • Broadcom v. Qualcomm – Represented Qualcomm in a multi-patent suit focusing on voice compression and Quality of Service (QoS) in federal district court
  • E-Pass Technologies, Inc. v. 3Com Corp and Palm, Inc. 473 F.3d 1213 (Fed. Cir. 2007) – Obtained precedential affirmance of a summary judgment ruling of non-infringement on behalf of Palm against a patent directed to electronic data cards
  • Charles E. Hill & Assoc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et.al. – Obtained favorable settlements for each of 13 defendants represented in a patent infringement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The three asserted patents related to electronic catalogs, with extensive work in browser software
  • Nortel v. ONI/Ciena – Represented ONI/Ciena in a case involving optical add-drop multiplexing in metropolitan area networks
  • Fuzzysharp v. Hewlett-Packard Company – Represented Hewlett-Packard in case involving software for 3-dimensional graphics
  • Rambus, Inc. v. Infineon – Represented Rambus in case involving DRAM technology
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Microjet Technology, Inc. – Represented Hewlett-Packard Company in an ITC case involving ink jet printing technology
  • Maxtor Corp. v. Magnetic Media Development, LLC – Represented Maxtor in case involving magnetic recording media
Languages
  • Polish
Education
  • LL.M., Patent and Intellectual Property, George Washington University 1998
  • J.D., American University, Washington College of Law 1995
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut 1989

Memberships And Affiliations

  • American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • American Bar Association and Intellectual Property Section

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DLA Piper secures defense win for BMW in patent infringement lawsuit against Michigan...

8 July 2024 .3 minute read

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