Erin Gibson

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Erin P. Gibson — Partner, DLA Piper (US)

Specialty / focus. Gibson's practice is concentrated in technology-sector patent litigation, with an unusual emphasis on Section 337 proceedings at the U.S. International Trade Commission. DLA Piper's own materials state she has handled more than 50 ITC cases and tried roughly 20–23 cases, predominantly patent trials in district courts and the ITC, and she currently chairs the firm's ITC practice. Chambers and Legal 500 both describe her as counseling technology companies in high-stakes disputes. The technical subject matter tracked in her case list is overwhelmingly electronics: smartphones and touchscreens, computer architecture and microprocessors, memory (DDR3, flash), displays, printing, DVR functionality, wireless/communication technology, and power-tool magnetics. She has occasional non-electronics matters (Histogen cell-culture litigation; Zenon water treatment), but this is not a pharma or life-sciences-focused practice.

Side preference. The tracked data shows a consistent defense posture: 6 of 6 appearances on the defendant/respondent side, including matters for Samsung and other operating companies. This aligns with the firm's profile — Patexia's 2026 patent litigation report ranked DLA Piper the #2 most active firm representing defendants, and ranked Gibson the #1 most active and #1 best-performing ITC attorney representing respondents. That said, her broader record is not exclusively defensive: she has acted for ITC complainants and for plaintiffs in district court (e.g., Isola and Ricoh), so she is best characterized as a defense-side operating-company litigator who has handled both sides rather than a dedicated NPE/PAE plaintiffs' lawyer. She does not appear on the plaintiff side in any of the tracked matters.

Firm context. Gibson is a partner at DLA Piper and holds several firm leadership roles: US Chair and Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice, Global Co-Chair of the Technology sector, and Chair of the ITC practice. She is listed in connection with the firm's San Diego and Washington, DC offices. I found no reliably sourced record of prior law firm or in-house employment; Martindale's profile lists her as a DLA Piper associate with a 2003 first admission date, which is consistent with a career spent at the firm, but I could not independently verify that she has no prior employer, so I would treat "career at DLA Piper" as likely rather than confirmed.

Notable cases and outcomes. The most prominent tracked matter is Maxell, Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex.), where a May 2025 jury returned a $112 million verdict against Samsung and the court subsequently granted Samsung's motion for judgment as a matter of law in October 2025, invalidating claims in two of three asserted patents and finding insufficient evidence of infringement on all three; her name appears in the DLA Piper trial team and in the trial transcript. She was also first-chair ITC trial counsel for NXP Semiconductors in an investigation that was withdrawn less than a week before trial in April 2024, producing a walk-away result. Other results credited to her include summary judgment for HP in Princeton Digital Image Corp. v. Hewlett-Packard, a complete plaintiff's jury verdict (willfulness and lost profits) for Isola in Isola USA v. Taiwan Union Technology, and representation of HP in Cornell v. Hewlett-Packard, the district court decision often cited as a catalyst for patent damages reform. Her active tracked matters include SoftView, LLC v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex., browser/HTML rendering patents, filed 2025) and VB Assets, LLC v. Samsung Electronics.

PTAB / IPR. Her publicly documented role is primarily district court and ITC trial work rather than PTAB practice. Samsung IPRs paralleling the Maxell litigation exist (e.g., IPR2024-00828, which produced a final written decision in 2025), and she argued related damages/parallel-proceeding issues at the Maxell trial, but the PTAB filings I located list other DLA Piper attorneys as petitioner counsel, so I would not describe her as a regular IPR/PGR lead absent confirmation.

Bar / education. Admitted in California and the District of Columbia; J.D., University of San Diego (2003, cum laude); B.J., University of Nebraska (1999).