William McCabe is a patent litigator with over three decades of experience handling patent infringement and trade secret actions, licensing and re-examinations. Bill has represented sophisticated U.S., European and Asian companies in high-stakes patent litigation and counseling matters, from New York to Tokyo and Seoul, including one patent trial widely viewed as the biggest “defense” win in U.S. patent litigation history. Bill obtained a judgment of noninfringement, invalidity and unenforceability against a defendant that had already collected more than $1.5 billion from over 1,000 companies.
Bill’s experience spans a variety of industries, including telecommunications, digital cameras, optics, semiconductors, software, medical records, energy, polymers, interferon, chemical engineering and electrochromics. In the high-tech arena, he has handled significant, high-stakes litigation involving CDMA and Wi-Fi technologies, encrypted VoIP and optical switches used in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) for telecommunications networks.
Additional industry areas of his patent litigation experience include automotive mirror products, bar code and machine vision technology and arcade games. Bill earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and began his career as a refinery startup engineer for UOP.
Recognized as one of the world’s leading patent litigators by IAM 250 and by New York Metro Super Lawyers, Bill is the author of a chapter in International Patent Litigation: Developing an Effective Strategy on U.S. patent litigation focused on federal courts and the ITC. In addition, Bill has spoken on the issue of patent prosecution and litigation misconduct.
Professional Recognition
- Listed in Thomson Reuters “Stand-out Lawyers,” 2024
- The Legal 500
- IAM 250: “World’s Leading Patent Litigators”
- The International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers
- Selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a New York Super Lawyer, 2007 – 2009, 2013 – 2023
- IAM Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Practitioners, 2023
- Recognized as a "Litigation Star" by Benchmark Litigation
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Patent Law, 2020 – 2024; Litigation - Patent, 2024
Professional Leadership
- Kellogg School of Management Strategic Leadership Program, Northwestern University, 2018
- New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Board Member, 2016 – present
- Federal Circuit Bar Association, Amicus Committee Vice-Chair
- Intellectual Property Owners Association, Asia Practice Committee
- American Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- New York City Bar Association