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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 Ofce
(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.
