2024 speakers

Erick Robinson is a Partner as well as Chair of both Patent Litigation and Legal Finance at Bochner PLLC. Based in both Houston and New York City, Erick manages and tries “bet-the-business” patent cases 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 and asserts his clients’ patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property. A U.S. patent attorney, he also has broad experience in patent monetization and licensing as well as litigating the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a leader in the world of litigation funding and publishes LitigationFundingBlog.com.

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 Texas, California, Delaware, and the ITC.
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 for a top Chinese law firm. Erick is a trusted authority on patent and antitrust law in the United States, China, and Europe and has been selected as one of the Leading 300 IP Strategists Worldwide by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) for ten years straight 2014 as well by as a Super Lawyers for Intellectual Property Litigation. He is frequently quoted in major publications such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and IP publications,