Brian Erickson

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Brian K. Erickson — Partner, DLA Piper (US), Austin, Texas

Erickson's practice centers on intellectual property litigation, with a stated focus on patent infringement and related competition issues in the consumer electronics, semiconductor, and software industries. His docket reflects that: mobile devices and web-content rendering (SoftView), voice recognition and natural-language understanding (VB Assets/VoiceBox), streaming media, Bluetooth and cellular communications, CPU/chipset and instruction-set technology, touchscreens, memory interfaces, optical drives, DVRs, and at least one medical device (spinal implants). He has handled matters in the Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of Texas and the Federal Circuit, and coordinated parallel patent litigation in Germany, the UK, and Taiwan; he also has ITC experience, including representation of respondents in an investigation concerning touchscreen devices and one involving ARM instruction-set patents.

Side preference. He is predominantly a defense-side litigator: of five tracked appearances, four are on the defendant side, and his representative engagements are largely defense of operating companies (Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Verizon, Arris, Medtronic, Sega) against NPE/PAE and competitor assertions. He is not exclusively a defender, however — his track record includes offensive counter-assertion and declaratory-judgment work against competitors, and the tracked Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Maxell, Ltd. matter places him on the plaintiff side of the Maxell/Samsung dispute.

Firm context. All tracked appearances are at DLA Piper, where he is a partner in the Austin office. Public records I could verify do not identify prior law-firm affiliations relevant to his patent litigation career; his profile notes he was an intern for Justice Craig Enoch at the Texas Supreme Court before joining practice.

Notable matters. The most prominent is Maxell, Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex.), where a May 2025 jury found Samsung owed roughly $112 million; in September 2025 Judge Robert Schroeder III granted Samsung's JMOL motion, finding insufficient evidence of infringement on all three asserted patents and invalidating claims in two of them, and denying Maxell's requests for enhanced damages, interest, and a permanent injunction (Law360; DLA Piper). Erickson was a member of the DLA Piper trial team. In the related PTAB track, Samsung obtained decisions invalidating most challenged claims in two Maxell smart-device patents (October–November 2025). Other tracked matters include SoftView, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex., web/mobile browser display patents, with parallel Google IPRs) and VB Assets, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co. (E.D. Tex., VoiceBox voice-assistant patents underlying Samsung's Bixby accused products).

PTAB/IPR. He appears regularly in post-grant proceedings, including as lead counsel. Reported examples include the Samsung v. Straight Path IP Group IPRs (oral hearing, 2015–16), the Samsung v. Maxell IPRs (where he filed a Sotera stipulation, 2024), and the VB Assets IPR family (2025, which resulted in discretionary denials).

Bar/education. Admitted in Texas (since 1999) and before the USPTO (Reg. No. 48,895); J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1999. Recognitions include Patexia's 2026 top-100 patent litigator and top-100 ITC respondent-side lists, Legal 500 (Patents: Litigation – ITC, 2023), and Best Lawyers' 2014 Austin "Lawyer of the Year" for Litigation–Intellectual Property.