Adam Lloyd Erickson

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Adam Lloyd Erickson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Erickson's practice centers on post-grant proceedings at the USPTO and appeals to the Federal Circuit rather than first-chair district court trial work. Haynes Boone's firm bio describes his focus as PTAB challenges and defenses plus Federal Circuit appeals, and lists technical experience spanning artificial intelligence, wireless networking, computer hardware and software, acoustic design and data processing, acoustic wave filters, medical devices, and oil and gas drilling. His searchable case work skews heavily toward video codec and streaming technology (Dolby video compression, DivX adaptive bitrate streaming, Velos H.265 and IdeaHub VVC patents) and geospatial/aerial-imagery technology (EagleView), consistent with that stated range. He was a registered patent agent before law school, which the firm cites as the basis for his validity analysis work.

Side preference. The tracked docket is evenly split — one plaintiff-side and one defendant-side appearance — and the underlying practice is genuinely two-sided at the PTAB: he has represented petitioners challenging patents and patent owners defending them. On the challenger side, much of his work is for Unified Patents, a defensive aggregator that files IPRs against NPE-held patents, so his petitioner work is aligned with operating-company/defensive interests rather than with NPE enforcement. On the patent-owner side, he worked for EagleView in the Nearmap dispute, both in the district court case (EagleView as plaintiff) and in defending EagleView's patents in Nearmap's IPRs. He does not appear to prosecute patents for NPEs/PAEs.

Firm context. All tracked appearances are at Haynes and Boone, where he is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office (some court filings list Plano and Dallas addresses). His prior patent-agent employer is not identified in the sources reviewed, so no earlier firm is stated here.

Notable cases and outcomes.

• Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 23-2110 (Fed. Cir. June 5, 2025) — the most prominent tracked matter. Representing Unified, the team won dismissal of Dolby's appeal for lack of Article III standing, with the court holding that a statutory right to appeal under the AIA does not displace the injury-in-fact requirement and that the AIA creates no informational right to real-party-in-interest disclosures. Angela Oliver argued; Erickson was on the team with Debbie McComas and David McCombs. Dolby filed a cert petition in February 2026, so the issue remains live.
• DivX, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC (Fed. Cir. June 2025) — Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's invalidation of DivX's U.S. Patent No. 10,326,987 (adaptive bitrate streaming) as obvious; Erickson was on the Unified team. Firm-reported, not a tracked appearance.
• Eagle View Technologies, Inc. v. Nearmap US, Inc. — the tracked plaintiff-side matter. Haynes Boone secured two PTAB wins in October 2024 when the Board denied institution of Nearmap's IPRs against EagleView's U.S. Patent Nos. 10,671,648 and 9,182,657. The outcome later cut the other way: on February 3, 2026, the Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions holding claims of EagleView's '961 and '436 patents unpatentable as obvious. The Utah district court case was stayed in August 2025 and the parties settled in May 2026 on confidential terms. Erickson is listed as an associate on the EagleView team.
• Acufloor, LLC v. EvenTile, Inc. (Fed. Cir. May 2025) — firm-reported Federal Circuit patent reversal for Acufloor; Erickson listed among the Haynes Boone associates. Firm-reported, not a tracked appearance.

PTAB / IPR experience. This is the core of his practice rather than an ancillary one. He appears as backup counsel in IPR proceedings (e.g., Askeladden, IPR2023-00921) and on petitioner powers of attorney (e.g., Cisco Systems, IPR2024-01283), and Unified Patents' published materials list him as counsel in several of its ex parte reexamination and IPR challenges (including DivX/Fortress-related patents). He was individually recognized in Patexia's 2025 PTAB Intelligence Report. He also co-authors practitioner articles on IPR estoppel and secondary-considerations issues.

Bar / education. Admitted in the District of Columbia and Texas; registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 77,434). J.D., Brigham Young University Law School, 2021 (magna cum laude); B.S., Applied Physics – Acoustics emphasis, BYU, 2017. Sources: Haynes Boone attorney bio, Federal Circuit opinions and press releases, and PTAB filings.