Bill serves as Chair of the Intellectual Property Law practice group. He advises clients on intellectual property protection strategies with a particular emphasis on patent prosecution and related counseling, risk analysis, and mitigation. Bill has experience working with a wide range of inventions involving electrical, mechanical, optical, computer hardware, and computer software technologies. Recently, he has worked on protecting inventions in computer-aided design, engineering, and simulation, network security, artificial intelligence, neural networks, home security cameras and monitoring systems, instant self-heating and self-chilling product technologies and packaging, industrial sand handling equipment, internal combustion engines, cycling shoes, weightlifting and exercise equipment, gaming, and in many other areas.
Bill serves as Chair of the Intellectual Property Law practice group. He advises clients on intellectual property protection strategies with a particular emphasis on patent prosecution and related counseling, risk analysis, and mitigation. Bill has experience working with a wide range of inventions involving electrical, mechanical, optical, computer hardware, and computer software technologies. Recently, he has worked on protecting inventions in computer-aided design, engineering, and simulation, network security, artificial intelligence, neural networks, home security cameras and monitoring systems, instant self-heating and self-chilling product technologies and packaging, industrial sand handling equipment, internal combustion engines, cycling shoes, weightlifting and exercise equipment, gaming, and in many other areas.
Bill believes that building relationships is a key part of providing good counseling, and he draws on his years of experience advising innovative and creative people at all kinds of large, mid-sized, and small companies, start-ups, and educational institutions, and individually. He also supports intellectual property licensing, litigation, due diligence, and provides some trademark counseling.
Bill has spoken on a variety of intellectual property topics, with a particular emphasis on patent law, in a variety of business and academic settings. Prior to joining Sheehan Phinney, he was a Principal in the New York office of Fish & Richardson, P.C. Prior to entering the legal field, Bill spent several years working as an electrical engineer, primarily in the maritime industry, and then as a Senior Project Manager for Design and Construction at New York University Medical Center.
