Erin McLaughlin

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Erin McLaughlin — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. McLaughlin's practice centers on patent litigation with a pronounced emphasis on Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission; her DLA Piper bio states she has handled roughly 15 ITC investigations and participated in four ITC trials, and she also maintains a federal district court practice (Texas, California, Delaware) through discovery, claim construction, summary judgment, pretrial, and trial. The technologies in her reported matters cluster around semiconductors and RF/communications hardware (silicon television tuners, RF modulation/demodulation integrated circuits, optical disc drive servo systems), consumer electronics and software, and automotive components; her firm bio also notes a bioscience background (B.S., Union College) and experience in those industry segments. No Wi-Fi-standard-essential-patent or pharmaceutical/Hatch-Waxman litigation is documented in the sources reviewed, so a pharma or SEP practice should not be assumed.

Side preference. Her verified work is predominantly defense-side. The tracked data shows one appearance, on the defendant side, and no plaintiff-side tracked appearances. That is consistent with her ITC record, where most reported matters are respondent-side defenses, and with her recognition in Patexia's 2026 ITC report as a top-performing attorney representing respondents. The exception is Certain Silicon Tuners and Products Containing Same, Including Television Tuners (337-TA-917), where she represented the complainant and obtained a consent order barring importation by the lead respondent — so she does have some complainant-side ITC experience, but it is not the center of gravity.

Firm context and background. She is Of Counsel at DLA Piper, based in the firm's New York office (an earlier DLA Piper appearance in the Northern District of California lists her in the East Palo Alto office). Before private practice she served as a law clerk and then attorney to Chief Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock at the USITC, advising on 11 unfair import investigations covering discovery disputes, claim construction, infringement, validity, unenforceability, domestic industry, and remedy — a background that maps directly onto her ITC litigation practice. Bar admissions: California (2013) and New York (2012), plus the USPTO; J.D., Tulane Law School.

Notable matters. Her most prominent reported results are ITC wins: in 337-TA-910 (silicon television tuner technology) she represented multiple respondents and obtained an Initial Determination of no violation of Section 337 that the Commission affirmed on review; in 337-TA-897 (optical disc drives) she obtained two ALJ Initial Determinations of no standing, upheld by the Commission; and in 337-TA-982 (RF capable integrated circuits) the investigation settled favorably for her respondent client before trial. She also appears as counsel for BMW entities in 337-TA-1073. On the district court side, the Law360 profile for a DLA Piper Erin M. McLaughlin links to DSS Technology Management, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (N.D. Cal. No. 14-cv-05330), where court filings confirm an Erin McLaughlin of DLA Piper appeared for Apple; that case was stayed pending Apple's IPRs of U.S. Patent No. 6,128,290 (the IPRs were decided in the patent owner's favor), then ended in a February 2020 judgment for Apple after the court struck DSS's infringement expert report, with DSS appealing to the Federal Circuit.

PTAB/IPR. No IPR or PGR filings were found naming her personally as counsel, and neither her firm bio nor the Patexia recognition addresses PTAB work; her documented experience with PTAB proceedings is indirect, through the district court stay posture in the Apple matter. Treat PTAB practice as unverified rather than established.

Sourcing note: facts above are drawn from her DLA Piper bio, the State Bar of California license record for Erin M. McLaughlin (#290853), Law360's attorney profile, and federal court/ITC filings. Note that several other attorneys named Erin McLaughlin practice in unrelated areas (e.g., a Massachusetts commercial litigator, a Colorado assistant attorney general); the profile above is limited to the DLA Piper patent litigator and does not rely on people-search aggregator data.