Erin Jones has been litigating complex cases for technology companies for over 16 years.  Clients turn to Erin and her deep technical expertise for advice on legal issues across a spectrum of software and hardware fields, such as mobile devices, enterprise computing, applications, networking, cybersecurity, games, AdTech, algorithms, internet, communications, semiconductors, computing, storage, and data management and protection. 

Erin focuses on helping her clients develop efficient dispute resolution strategies grounded in a firm understanding of their technology and business goals.  She has extensive experience in patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, CFAA, unfair competition, false advertising, privacy, and other commercial disputes.  She has led cases through initial investigation, strategy development, discovery, trial, appeal, and post-settlement compliance.   Her skills also include intellectual property assessment, portfolio analysis, and product design counseling in diverse hardware and software technology fields.  In recent years, Erin’s legal and technical guidance have contributed to a complete defense jury verdict in E.D. Tex in a trade secret, contract, and CFAA action on behalf of a defendant co-founder of an SSD company; a jury verdict of willful copyright infringement and violation of Section 512(f) of the DMCA on behalf of an entertainment company; and favorable settlements of patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and breach of contract matters in federal courts in California, Minnesota, Texas, Delaware, and Maine.

Before joining Tyz Law Group in 2016, Erin was a Big Law litigator in the Silicon Valley offices of leading law firms Fish & Richardson PC; Weil, Gotshal and Manges, LLP; and Fenwick & West LLP.  She also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James Donato, District Judge of the Northern District of California. 

Erin holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before studying law, she worked many years as a manager and leader in the microelectronics industry and academia.  At the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, she led a group researching high-performance logic devices.  She also researched and taught electronic device design and processing at Oregon State University and Kyoto University.  Erin holds a Ph.D and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, and is an inventor named on 26 U.S. patents.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Represented plaintiff cybersecurity company in copyright, trade secret, and CFAA litigation in D. Del., achieving full settlement and public apology.

• Represented defendant cybersecurity company in antitrust action in N.D. Cal., achieving full settlement.

• Represented leading cybersecurity company in responding to governmental investigative demand and a variety of civil subpoenas relating to data breach investigations.

• Represented defendant co-founder of SSD company in trade secret, contract, and CFAA action in E.D. Tex., achieving a Complete Defense Jury Verdict.

• Represented defendant software platform provider in trade secret, trademark and breach of contract action in D. Nev.

• Represented web application cybersecurity company in response and resolution of state attorney general subpoena relating to data breach investigations.

• Represented defendant video game development studio in copyright litigation in D. Minn.

• Represented defendant VoIP provider in patent litigation in D. Del.

LEGAL PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Speaker, Intellectual Property and Barristers Sections of Bar Association of San Francisco: IP BYTES: Hot Topics in Patent Law Seminar.

• Co-author, “Network Security Architecture for Demand Response/Sensor Networks,” for the California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Group, (with P.S. Subrahamanyam, D. Wagner, E. Jones, U. Shankar and J. Lerner) June 2006, exploring security and privacy concerns that result from energy advanced metering and demand response infrastructures, and proposing technological and legal solutions in addressing security and privacy issues.