Leading by Example: Elevating Women through Intentionality

• Author: Erika Harmon Arner - Jency J. Mathew - Courtney Kasuboski
• Position: Erika Harmon Arner is a partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP in Washington, D.C. She represents clients before the USPTO, district courts, and Federal Circuit in technologies related to computer software, financial systems, telecommunications, and electrical arts. She can be reached at erika.arner@finnegan.com. Jency J....
• Pages: 54-66

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Leading by

Example

Elevating Women

through Intentionality

By Erika Harmon Arner, Jency J. Mathew, and Courtney Kasuboski

In the March/April 2018 issue of Landslide® magazine,

the article “Leading by Example: Words of Wisdom from

Women Leaders in IP” shared insights and inspirat ion

from eight women leaders in the eld of intellectual prop-

erty (IP) law. For this article, the authors returned to t he

original interviewees and asked them to nomi nate women

they perceived as “rising stars” or “women to watch” in IP.

• Sarah Harris, U.S. Patent and Trademark Ofce

(USPTO) general counsel, nominated Farheena

Rasheed, senior counsel for patent law and litigation at

the USPTO, and Jackie Bonilla, deputy chief judge of

the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

• Susan Braden, retired chief judge of the U.S. Court of

Federal Claims, nominated Corinna Alanis, counsel for

technology litigation, licensing, and transactions at Teradata.

• Faith Hochberg, retired federal district court judge,

nominated Lisa Pensabene, head of the life science lit-

igation practice at O’Melveny & Myers.

• Catherine Lacavera, vice president of legal at Google

Inc., nominated Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, associ-

ate professor at Stanford Law School, and Karen

Robinson, vice president of intellectual property and

litigation at Adobe.

• Debbie Segers, vice president and chief IP counsel at

FIS, nominated Elizabeth Lester, assistant general

counsel of intellectual property at Equifax Inc.

Erika Harmon Arner is a partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP in Washington, D.C. She represents clients

before the USPTO, district courts, and Federal Circuit in technologies related to computer software, nancial systems, telecommunications,

and electrical arts. She can be reached at erika.arner@nnegan.com. Jency J. Mathew is an associate at Finnegan in Reston, Virginia. She

focuses her practice on patent litigation and patent portfolio development across a broad array of technical elds, including medical devices and

computer software. She can be reached at jency.mathew@nnegan.com. Courtney Kasuboski is an associate at Finnegan in Washington, D.C.

She specializes in patent litigation, particularly in the electrical and mechanical arts. She can be reached at courtney.kasuboski@nnegan.com.