Brian K. Erickson

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

Brian K. Erickson is a partner in DLA Piper's Austin office whose practice centers on intellectual-property litigation — patent infringement and related competition issues — in the consumer electronics, semiconductor, and software industries. His docket is heavily weighted toward computing, mobile, networking, and digital-media technologies (e.g., CPU/chipset architecture, memory interfaces, Bluetooth/cellular features, touchscreen devices, DVR and media streaming) rather than pharma or life sciences. Per his firm bio, he has represented Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Motorola, Verizon, Medtronic, Rambus, Arris, and Sega, among others, and has coordinated parallel patent litigation in Germany, the UK, and Taiwan.

Side and firm context. The tracked appearance data reflects a predominantly defensive practice: 9 of 11 tracked matters show him representing defendants, all major operating companies (Sega, Apple, HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba Networks), with only 2 plaintiff-side entries (Applied Optoelectronics v. Accelight and one Velocity v. HP Enterprise matter). He has spent his entire tracked career at DLA Piper / DLA Piper (US); no prior firm or in-house stints appear in the record. His firm bio confirms purely private practice, with an early clerkship-style internship with Justice Craig Enoch of the Texas Supreme Court.

Notable matters and outcomes. His most visible tracked matter is Uniloc USA v. Sega of America, where he served as lead counsel for Sega; the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's invalidation of Uniloc's widely litigated '216 anti-piracy patent (Oct. 2017). He also appears as lead counsel for Apple in multiple Apple v. Uniloc 2017 LLC IPRs (e.g., IPR2019-00702, IPR2019-01667), for Samsung as petitioner against Maxell (IPR2024-00906), and for Dell in W.D. Tex. matters such as Ozmo Licensing v. Dell Technologies. His bio reports a series of favorable transfers and settlements for clients including Itron, Landis+Gyr, The Container Store, and a multinational technology company defending Bluetooth/cellular suits — several following successful IPRs — though specific terms are not public. He was named to Patexia's Top 100 patent litigators and Top 100 ITC respondent attorneys (2026), Best Lawyers in America (since 2014), and was Austin IP Litigation "Lawyer of the Year" (2014).

PTAB/IPR experience. Erickson appears regularly before the PTAB, typically as petitioner's lead counsel in inter partes reviews challenging NPE/PAE patents (Apple v. Uniloc series, Samsung v. Maxell), and his bio links successful IPRs to favorable settlements. Bar/education: J.D., University of Texas School of Law (1999); licensed in Texas (1999); admitted to the USPTO, the Federal Circuit, and Texas federal district courts.