Erick Robinson is a top-rated contingency fee patent infringement litigation attorney with 25 years of experience in patent litigation and other areas of intellectual property.
He litigates patent infringement and other IP lawsuits on a contingent fee basis in the United States and worldwide. With no upfront costs, Erick ardently advocates for inventors, enforcing patents on a contingency fee across the U.S. in federal court, the PTAB, the ITC, and other courts and agencies around the world. Erick zealously fights for damages owed to inventors for infringement of single patents as well as vast portfolios. He is one of the few patent litigation trial lawyers admitted to the USPTO. Also, in addition to his experience at some of the worls's largest and most prestigious law firms, Erick has served as corporate counsel for multiple top technology companies and also represented patent owners on a contingency fee.
He has been recognized multiple times as one of the top 300 intellectual property strategists and uses his experience, skills, and passion to battle the largest and most powerful companies in the world. He is known for being an outspoken opponent of BigTech and their tactics of "efficient infringement." To fight the biggest, inventors and small companies need the best, and a contingent or contingency fee arrangement allows inventors access to patent litigation counsel they could otherwise not afford.
Erick and his firm have over 550 lawyers across more than 25 offices who are waiting to fiercely engage patent infringers on a contingency fee. The patent owner will not be charged until and unless we win. Unlike many firms and attorneys, the vast majority of our patent litigation is on contingency.
Erick Robinson
Erick Robinson manages and tries “bet-the-business” patent cases on contingency fee with a focus on sole inventors and small companies that are traditionally underrepresented in patent litigation. An experienced trial lawyer, patent litigator, and IP strategist with a technical background in computer science, electronics, and biotechnology, he fiercely protects his clients’ patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property on a contingency fee. A U.S. patent attorney, he also has broad experience in patent monetization and licensing, litigating and trying trade secret disputes, and litigating inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on a contingent fee. In addition, Erick is a certified Texas mediator.
Erick has managed and tried patent cases in the United States and around the world, including multi-jurisdictional cases in China, Germany, France, Brazil, Vietnam, and Singapore. Domestically, he focuses on contingency patent litigation in federal district courts as well as the International Trade Commission and spends much of his time in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
Erick has 25 years in managing major contingency fee patent litigation 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 was also the Director of Patent Litigation at a top Chinese law firm. Erick is a trusted authority on patent and antitrust law in the U.S., China, and Europe and has been consistently selected as one of the Leading 300 IP Strategists Worldwide by Intellectual Asset Management since 2014 as well as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for Intellectual Property Litigation.
He has published dozens of articles on U.S. and Chinese patent litigation. Erick is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Intellectual Asset Management, and other publications on U.S. and Chinese patent and antitrust issues.
