ERIK S. MAURER
Attorney
Erik Maurer focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation
and counseling. He represents clients in matters involving utility
patent, design patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, unfair
competition, antitrust, and copyright issues, from both plaintiffs’ and
defendants’ perspectives. In every instance, Erik strives to
understand clients’ goals and then to efficiently achieve those goals
using appropriate advocacy and dispute resolution skills reinforced
by modern technological resources.
With this approach Erik has successfully served as appellate advocate; handled temporary
restraining order and preliminary injunction hearings; secured and executed seizure orders;
examined witnesses, presented evidence, and argued to judge, jury, and arbitrator; efficiently
conducted complex ESI discovery; drafted winning motions through every phase of litigation;
and briefed successful appellate and amicus curiae submissions.
Mr. Maurer enjoys teaching and serves as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University
School of Law in Chicago teaching Patent Trial Practice. Mr. Maurer taught Patent Trial Practice
at the Georgetown University Law Center in DC, where he also taught Trial Practice in the High
Technology Courtroom, a course he wrote based on experiences simplifying complex patent
issues for expert examinations at trial and for pre-trial Markman hearings.
Mr. Maurer is also a contributing author to the Patent Trial Advocacy Casebook, Second Edition
published by the American Bar Association.
Erik graduated Order of the Coif and earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Northwestern University
School of Law. He was an associate editor of Northwestern’s Law Review, and published his article,
"An Economic Justification for a Broad Interpretation of Patentable Subject Matter" in the Law Review’s
Spring 2001 volume. Prior to law school, Erik worked in the environmental engineering field and in
policy development at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Erik earned a Bachelors of
Science in Biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign in 1996.
Mr. Maurer has earned an AV Preeminent® peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He was again
named an "Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star" in the field of Intellectual Property Litigation in the
February 2011 edition of Chicago Magazine. Super Lawyers Rising Stars names the state's top 2% of
up-and-coming attorneys under the age of 40 based on a comprehensive research process to find
evidence of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Erik Maurer practices in the Chicago office of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Office
Ten South Wacker Drive
Suite 3000
Chicago, IL 60606-7407
T 312.463.5000
F 312.463.5001
[email protected]
Education
B.S. 1996, University of Illinois
J.D. 2001, Northwestern University
Bar Admissions
2001, Illinois
Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Central
District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Wisconsin
Supreme Court of Illinois
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Practice Areas
Appellate Litigation
Design Patents
Jury Trials
Litigation
Section 337/ITC Litigation
Trade Dress
Trademarks
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