Eric Finnerty is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the Electronics Practice Group. Eric’s patent prosecution experience includes preparing and prosecuting domestic and international patent applications across a variety of technology areas, such as data science and analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, computer networking, advertising and marketing, medical devices, semiconductor devices and materials, financial technology and business methods, wireless communications, autonomous vehicle systems, signal processing, nanomaterials, microfluidic devices, and optics.

Eric’s patent litigation experience includes preparing infringement contentions, preparing claim charts, performing analysis of competing products, and performing in-depth source code reviews.

Prior to joining Foley, Eric was a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts, where he designed and implemented graph computing accelerators on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).