Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

Intellectual Property

Managing Partner

Erika Harmon Arner, managing partner of Finnegan, is a nationally recognized leader in trial practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and related appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She consistently ranks as one of the top three female attorneys appearing in PTAB trials and was named a PTAB Litigator of the Year by Managing Intellectual Property. She has argued and won a number of landmark cases at the PTAB and Federal Circuit for both patent challengers and patent owners.

PTAB Bar Association (president, 2018-2019; president-elect, 2016-2017) Intellectual Property Owners Association (vice chair, Women in IP Law committee, 2020-present; vice chair, U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice, 2016-2017; vice chair, Patent Office Practice Committee, 2012-2014; vice chair, Software and Business Method Patents Committee, 2009-2011) American Bar Association (chair, Mark T. Banner awards committee, 2016-2017; patents editor, Landslide magazine, 2012-2015; lead patents editor, Annual Review of Intellectual Property Developments, 2010-2012) Virginia State Bar (Intellectual Property Section Board of Governors, 2013-2015) American Intellectual Property Law Association (Amicus Brief Committee; Professional Programs Committee, 2014-2015)

Washington and Lee University School of Law J.D., cum laude, 1999 College of William and Mary B.S., Computer Science, 1993