Mentoring areas: Intellectual property; patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyright, licensing, litigation.

Erik Puknys is a partner at Finnegan LLP, one of the world’s largest intellectual property firms, with offices in Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, Boston, and Atlanta, as well as Europe (Munich and London) and Asia (Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul, and Shanghai).  

He advises clients of all sizes who need to protect their IP as they grow or enter new markets. He has worked for startups and Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of technical fields, including software, telecommunications, computer hardware, semiconductors, medical diagnostics, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.