Erik Dykema's main field of practice is intellectual property litigation. Erik has significant experience in patent litigation involving cellphone handsets, computer networking, integrated circuit design, CPU architecture, automobile design, and marine technology. Erik also has extensive experience with wireless standards essential patents and technology such as those relating to 3GPP, Bluetooth, and Wifi.

Erik has been involved in the litigation of dozens of patents, with experience in all phases of patent litigation from initial filing through pre-trial preparation, in the District Courts, at the Federal Circuit, at the Patent Trials and Appeals Board, and before the US International Trade Commission.

In addition to intellectual property disputes, Mr. Dykema has worked on commercial litigation for both international and domestic corporations, litigating cases in binding arbitration, and before state and federal courts, involving class action complaints, trade secrets, trademarks, business ownership, fraud, development outsourcing litigation. Mr. Dykema also regularly prosecutes trademarks and appears before the USPTO Trademark Trials and Appeals Board.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Dykema worked for eight years as an electronics engineer and programmer at Columbia University / New York Presbyterian Hospital. During that time he designed and implemented devices to measure, record, store, and display patient information (e.g. electroencephalogram readings) permitting the remote review of such information by medical staff.