Christina M. Finn

Christina M. Finn is a Special Counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, focusing on complex intellectual property litigation, particularly patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes. Her practice emphasizes technologies within the computer and telecommunications sectors, including cybersecurity, wireless router technology, beam forming, network security, next-generation firewalls, threat intelligence correlation, and DNS security. Ms. Finn is adept at representing both rights holders enforcing their patents and companies defending against infringement allegations.

Her case experience includes significant roles in both defendant and plaintiff-side patent matters. She has acted as Special Counsel for defendants such as Cisco Systems, Inc. and Keysight Technologies, Inc. in high-stakes patent infringement actions brought by Centripetal Networks, Inc. Notably, she was part of the team that secured a $151.5 million jury verdict for Centripetal Networks Inc. against Palo Alto Networks in a cybersecurity patent infringement case, though a subsequent judgment as a matter of law was partially granted, and specific damages remain sealed. She also represented Centripetal Networks, LLC in an appeal to the Federal Circuit concerning an adverse Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision, where the Board's finding of unpatentability was affirmed. Her experience also extends to Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings, as demonstrated by her appearance for the plaintiff in Unified Patents v. Paygeo LLC.

Ms. Finn's professional background includes successfully settling patent infringement cases involving aircraft flight performance, wireless router technology, and hard drive storage. She was admitted to the California Bar in 2006. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Indiana University, Maurer School of Law in 2006, and a B.S., magna cum laude, in computer science with a communications minor from Saint Louis University in 2003.