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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 23:22:03+00:00

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Erika Harmon Arner is a nationally-recognized leader in trial practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and was named 2017 PTAB Litigator of the Year by Managing IP. She represents clients before the Federal Circuit, where she has argued and won appeals from the PTAB and district courts in technologies ranging from graphical user interfaces to complex telecommunications systems to large scale scent diffusion devices.
Erika focuses on patent office trials, client counseling, and litigation, with an emphasis on electronic technology, computer software, and the Internet. She has represented patent owners and petitioners in more than 100 PTAB trials, most as lead counsel. She currently serves as president of the PTAB Bar Association.
Erika has also argued and won appeals from PTAB trials to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, many of which involve issues of first impression in this emerging area of patent law. She has also successfully defended district court decisions on appeal at the Federal Circuit.
In addition to her extensive experience in patent office and appellate practice, Erika is a well-known authority in the area of patent-eligibility jurisprudence. Since representing the petitioners before the U.S. Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos, she has handled dozens of cases involving issues related to patentable subject matter before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. district courts, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Erika advises clients on patent strategy, portfolio management and licensing, and patent prosecution. She is a frequent author and lecturer on business method and computer-related patents and practice before the PTAB. Erika serves as an editor for Finnegan's AIA blog on PTAB trials and AIA provisions. She is a coeditor of The Practitioner's Guide to Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law, 2014, and the Second Edition that was published in 2016.
Over her career, Erika has gained recognition for her patent prosecution and post-grant procedure practices, as well as IP litigation, by leading publications, including Intellectual Asset Management and Managing IP. She has been named one of the "Top 250 Women in IP."
Global Tel*Link Corp. v. Securus Technologies, Inc.
Lead counsel for Securus Technologies, obtaining confirmation of some or all challenged claims in seven Securus patents and winning cancellation of all claims in several Global Tel-Link patents.
Netflix, Inc. v. OpenTV, Inc.
Lead counsel for patent owner OpenTV in multiple sets of IPRs filed by competitors, obtaining institution denial and confirmation of some or all claims in several OpenTV patents.
Trading Technologies, Inc. v. CQG, Inc.
Argued on behalf of patent owner Trading Technologies, obtaining ruling that claims to inventive graphical user interface are patentable under 35 USC 101.
SAP America Inc. v. Versata Development Group Inc.
Lead counsel for petitioner SAP in the first PGR review of a CBM patent; argued and won Federal Circuit affirmance of PTAB ruling that all claims challenged by SAP were invalid under 35 USC 101.
DataTreasury Corp. v. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
Represented petitioner Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) in CBMs of check-imaging patents known as the “Ballard” patents, which were named by Congress when it wrote Section 18 of the America Invents Act (AIA); PTAB issued final written decision finding the challenged claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 112, which the Federal Circuit affirmed. Also assisted FIS with mandamus petitions to the Federal Circuit that stayed the underlying litigation in the E.D. Texas.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. v. 5th Market Inc.
Successfully represented Chicago Mercantile Exchange in multiple covered business method reviews and an inter partes reexamination challenging the validity of patents related to automated trading systems.

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