A sampling of William’s experience includes:

• Representing corporations, entrepreneurs, individual and startups with regard to the preparation and prosecution of patent applications with a focus on securing patent protection in a timely, cost-effective manner to protect technical innovations.
• Developing worldwide strategies for protecting intellectual property assets and portfolios.
• Managing global patent portfolios or portfolio segments for multinational corporations.
  • Serves as outside U.S. patent counsel for an $8 billion travel technology company.
  • Serves as outside U.S. patent counsel for a $6 billion semiconductor foundry.
  • Serves as outside U.S. patent counsel for a division of a
    $9 billion specialty pharmaceutical company.
• Procuring over 700 U.S. patents protecting various technical innovations developed by a high technology client, including securing protection for technologies covering core inventions.
• Responding to several thousand domestic and foreign Office Actions.
• Prosecuting to grant over one thousand U.S. patents and their foreign equivalents.
• Advising clients on effective replies to cease-and-desist letters.
• Preparing broadening reissue and continuation reissue applications to extend the scope of client patent protection.