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William J McCabe

William J McCabe

USA 2026

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About

Provided by Ashurst Perkins Coie – London, New York, Seattle, Sydney

USA

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property Law

Patent Litigation

Trade Secrets

Medical Device

Technology & Communications

Career

William McCabe is a patent litigator with more than three decades of experience handling patent infringement and trade secret actions, licensing, re-examinations, and inter partes reviews. Bill has represented sophisticated U.S., European, and Asian companies in high-stakes patent litigation and counseling matters. These include a record-setting judgment of noninfringement, invalidity, and unenforceability against a defendant that had already collected more than $1.5 billion from over 1,000 companies.

Bill has represented clients in a breadth of industries, including telecommunications, digital cameras, optics, semiconductors, software, medical devices, energy, polymers, pharmaceuticals, chemical engineering, and electrochromics. He has handled high-stakes litigation involving code-division multiple access and Wi-Fi technologies, encrypted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and optical switches used in wavelength-division multiplexing for telecommunications networks.

Bill also has litigated matters involving automotive mirror products, bar code and machine vision technology, and arcade games. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and began his career as a refinery startup engineer for UOP.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Intellectual Property: Patent - New York

Band 5
Band 5

Individual Editorial

William McCabe is a respected IP litigator with substantial expertise in patent and trade secrets disputes. He has notable experience acting for tech-sector clients.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Bill is responsive, knowledgeable and smart.

    Intellectual Property: PatentChambers Guide to the USA
  • Bill is a fantastic lawyer.

    Intellectual Property: PatentChambers Guide to the USA
  • Bill had real wealth of knowledge and has great way of explaining complicated issues.

    Intellectual Property: PatentChambers Guide to the USA

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