Michael K. Erickson

Mr. Erickson’s practice emphasizes intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret matters. In particular, he focuses on intellectual property disputes in computer, software, and Internet industries. He is experienced in a wide-range of technology disputes, including Internet file sharing, electronic ad substitution, digital modeling, computer hacking, Web crawling, anti-circumvention technologies, domain names, digital image resizing, digital video recording, sponsored link advertising, safe harbors for Internet Service Providers, search-engine optimizations, and foreign software distribution.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. Erickson developed software for Sandia National Laboratories, a national security laboratory in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.