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Beijing East IP Names Erick Robinson As Director of Patent Litigation

Issued: May 29 2017

Beijing East IP has named Erick Robinson as its director of patent litigation. He was most recently chief patent counsel Asia Pacific at Rouse International in Beijing and Shanghai. He will be based in Beijing. Robinson previously served as director of patents for Qualcomm in Asia, where he managed a broad range of IP issues ranging from patent drafting, prosecution, licensing, and litigation, to regulatory, policy, and antitrust matters. He also managed open source issues for Qualcomm Atheros, and created, implemented, and enforced open source protocols. Before Qualcomm, he managed patent and open source matters for Red Hat. He is an experienced US patent attorney and trial lawyer with a technical background in computer science and physics, as well as biotechnology.