Attorney at Law - Texas
Intellectual Property Law Author, Consultant & Expert Witness
Biography
Eric E. Bensen is an internationally recognized intellectual property law author, consultant and expert witness. His works as author or coauthor include six leading intellectual property treatises from Matthew Bender:
Bensen Patent Licensing Transactions,
U.S. Patent Opinions & Evaluations, and
New York Intellectual Property Law
He is also the author of LexisNexis’ Patent Statements of Law, which provides comprehensive coverage of patent law principles using quotations from Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit organized in an easy to use format. His other works from LexisNexis/Matthew Bender include Attorney's Dictionary of Patent Terms, a lexicon of the language of modern patent claims for patent drafters, Gray Markets: Prevention, Detection and Litigation, which provides thorough coverage of the legal and practical tools that can be employee to reduce gray market activity, and Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy, which provides a unique look at the intersection between intellectual property and bankruptcy law and is now available as Collier on Bankruptcy, Chapter 126 (Matthew Bender). Mr. Bensen is also the United States Reporter for LexisNexis Australia’s Intellectual Property Reports.
Mr. Bensen has served as a expert witness in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom on matters of U.S. intellectual property law including trade secret law, patent law and patent licensing and has advised clients throughout the United States as well as in Japan and Europe on intellectual property issues arising in litigation, licensing and transactional matters.
At the time he started his solo practice, Mr. Bensen also taught patent, copyright, and intellectual property licensing classes as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law. Earlier, Mr. Bensen practiced for more than 12 years with large firms in New York City where he led attorney teams in successful litigations of highly complex patent and trade secret cases before the International Trade Commission and a wide range of intellectual property cases in federal and state courts throughout the country. He also negotiated sophisticated copyright, patent and trademark licenses both here and abroad and advised clients on intellectual property licensing issues arising in large transactional matters. His clients included technology, pharmaceutical, medical device, agricultural, entertainment and consumer product companies.
Mr. Bensen selectively speaks on intellectual property issues. Among other engagements, he spoke at the European Patent Lawyers Association’s (“EPLAW”) Congress in Brussels in 2007 to provide expertise on U.S. patent damages law in connection with EPLAW’s consideration of Article 13 (Damages) of the Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, at the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association’s Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute in Houston in 2010 on patent damages post-Lucent and at the Suffolk University Law School’s Second Annual Intellectual Property & Innovation Conference in 2019 on the Defend Trade Secrets Act.
He is admitted to the bar of the State of Texas, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He received his J.D. in 1996 from Hofstra University School of Law where he was an associate editor of the Hofstra Law Review.