Erin Jones has been litigating complex cases for technology companies for over 17 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 secrets, 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 the Eastern District of Texas 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.

ADDITIONAL RECENT AND REPRESENTATIVE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Transferring a patent suit from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California and invalidating the asserted patents on 35 U.S.C. Section 101 grounds.

• Obtaining dismissal of claims against a fan-generated entertainment platform involving allegations that digital advertising technology present on the platform constituted a trap and trace device under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

• Obtaining a favorable settlement and public apology for plaintiff cybersecurity company in copyright, trade secret, and CFAA litigation in the District of Delaware.

• Securing full settlement for defendant cybersecurity company in antitrust action in the Northern District of California.

• Navigating multiple civil subpoenas and governmental investigative demands. relating to data breach investigations for a leading cybersecurity company.

• Resolving a state attorney general subpoena relating to data breach investigations for a web application cybersecurity company.

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

Erin holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  Before studying law, she worked for 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 Ph.D, M.S., and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, and is an inventor named on 26 U.S. patents.