A. Eric Bjorgum

Intellectual Property Litigation

Experience

A. Eric Bjorgum has experience in all areas of intellectual property litigation. He has litigated diverse subjects such as satellite encryption technology, television/Internet “convergence” and entertainment industry collaboration agreements.

Mr. Bjorgum has worked on patent cases involving amusement park ride systems, computerized water controls, automotive airbag technology, cell phone technology and infrared controllers. He also has extensive experience in intellectual property enforcement-related counterclaims, especially those giving rise to defenses under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine and the related anti–SLAPP statutes passed by several states.

Mr. Bjorgum has tried cases to juries and has a strong sense of what will and will not work in the courtroom. As a federal law clerk in the busy District of Nevada, Mr. Bjorgum observed dozens of trials and spoke with many jurors about their experiences and impressions of trial attorneys. He has also prepared appeals in both the Ninth Circuit and California courts, so he is able to prepare a case with an eye toward trial, and, if necessary, appeal.

Mr. Bjorgum has an interest in legal ethics. He has been published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and served as an editor of a law school textbook, Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility by Daniel R. Coquillette, the general editor of Moore's Federal Practice.

Mr. Bjorgum has a personal interest in music and multimedia technology and has a small recording studio in his home.

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

California

Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Education

Boston College Law School

Newton, MA

J.D., Cum Laude

University of California

Berkeley, CA

B.A., Philosophy and Literature

Judicial Clerkship

Law Clerk to the Honorable David W. Hagen, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada