I handle the full scope of complex patent matters, from strategic counseling to litigation and everything in between.
emilch@cooley.com
Erik is a first-chair trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience litigating in key jurisdictions across the US, as well as before the International Trade Commission and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Erik litigates complex matters involving medical devices, life sciences instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, electrical and computer technology, consumer products and biofuels.
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Global cross-license achieved for Gevo in long-running biofuels patent case
New Enterprise Assoc and Oak Investment Partners $70M Series D Financing of NextNav
ProteinSimple $300 Million Sale to Techne Corporation
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Litigation
ITC Section 337 Litigation
Patent Office Litigation
Patent Counseling & Prosecution
Medtech
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Milch is a quality lawyer and genuinely nice human being, too. He is a mechanical engineer by training, but he has a long technical reach and isn't one of those litigators who is weak on the substantive patent law.
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law SchoolJD, 1999
Georgia Institute of TechnologyBME, Mechanical Engineering1993
District of Columbia
New York
Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Virginia
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