Miller Nash partner, Brian Esler, has been appointed as a dispute resolution specialist for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Established in 1967, WIPO is the United Nations agency that serves the world’s innovators and creators, ensuring that their ideas travel safely to the market and improve lives everywhere. WIPO provides services that enable creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs to protect and promote their intellectual property (IP) across borders and act as a forum for addressing cutting-edge IP issues. Their IP data and information guide decisionmakers the world over, and their impact-driven projects and technical assistance ensure IP benefits everyone, everywhere.
About Brian Esler
Brian's practice is focused on complex business litigation, intellectual property advice and litigation, construction litigation, defense of financial institutions, and appellate advocacy. He has broad courtroom experience in a variety of venues, having argued or tried cases in state, federal, and tribal courts, and before federal and state agencies. Brian's practice uniquely spans the fields of technology and construction. Brian has handled numerous intellectual property and technology disputes, especially in the area of trade secrets, with one judge commenting on his “demonstrated expertise in trade secrets litigation” when awarding his client fees for dissolving an injunction. He also represents a variety of construction industry clients involved in projects throughout the Pacific Northwest, including major public works projects. In addition, he is also a highly-skilled appellate advocate that has briefed dozens of appeals (including Supreme Court petitions for certiorari) and argued cases in every division of the Court of Appeals, the Washington Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit.
Brian is co-chair of the Business Torts and Unfair Competition committee of the American Bar Association's Litigation Section. He formerly served on the Washington State Bar Association’s Court Rules and Procedures committee. He is an active member of the Attorneys Council of the American Subcontractors Association and a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only network of top litigators from around the country.
