Eric Horsley, Ph.D.
Eric is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and counseling. Eric has a Ph.D. in physics and brings his extensive education in physics to assist clients in protecting their technology. He is extremely comfortable doing high-level math and technologies that involve the same. In law school, he was an extern with the Duke Office for Translation and Commercialization, working to protect the intellectual property of the university. Eric has experience in the following technical fields:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Software applications
- Photoemission spectroscopy
- Transducer imaging
- Optical systems
- American Physical Society
- "A Legal 360 for Intellectual Property for AI," co-author, August 4, 2023.
- "Is the Standard Essential Patent a Certainty for the Field of Uncertainty – Quantum Technology?", co-author, Reuters, March 10, 2023.
- "What the Patent Bar is Saying About the USPTO’s Call for Comments on AI Inventorship," co-author, IPWatchdog, February 19, 2023.
Education
J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2022
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2019
B.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 2014
Admissions
Texas
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Haynes and Boone, LLP invalidated four patents that challenged Instacart’s business and position as a pioneer in online grocery delivery. The firm’s Patent Office Trials Practice Group won four separate inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) against Consumeron, LLC. Instacart is the leading grocery technology company in North America. The company pa [...]
