Eric M. Acker

Eric M. Acker


Morrison Foerster

Recognized since 2009

San Diego, California

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Litigation - Patent

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Eric Acker is a partner and trial lawyer in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Acker has tried more than 50 trials (including more than 47 jury trials) in courtrooms across the country.

Mr. Acker’s recent trials have involved a variety of technologies and significant legal issues. In the high-profile SCO v. Novell case, following a three-week trial, the jury affirmed our client Novell’s ownership of the copyrights to the UNIX software code and rejected SCO’s claim for damages of $100 to $200 million. Mr. Acker received a 2012 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award (CLAY Award) for the defense of Novell. During the past several years, Mr. Acker has tried patent cases in numerous jurisdictions, including New York, New Jersey, Utah, California, Texas and Massachusetts, and Nevada.

In addition to winning the CLAY award in 2012, Mr. Acker was named the Best Lawyers in America San Diego Litigation Patent Lawyer of the Year in 2014 and San Diego Litigation - Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year in 2018. He is also recommended as a leading lawyer by Best Lawyers in America 2009-2018 and Legal 500 US 2013, and was named a “California Local Litigation Star” in the 2015-2018 issues of Benchmark Litigation.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster in 1999, Mr. Acker spent ten years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of Columbia and the Southern District of California. He is a past Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference for the Southern District of California, and also a Master in the Louis Welsh Inn of Court, San Diego Chapter.

Mr. Acker was Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California at Berkeley where he received his B.S. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

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Location
  • 12531 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100
    San Diego, CA 92130-2040
Education
  • University of California Berkeley, graduated 1985
Bar Admissions
  • California, The State Bar of California
  • District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
Federal Clerkships
  • United States District Court

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Litigation - Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2014 - Litigation - Patent
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property, San Diego (2018)
  • Litigation - Patent, San Diego (2014)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
Special Focus:
  • Intellectual Property
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Copyright Law
  • Patent Law
  • Trademark Law

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