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William (Bill) McCabe

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William (Bill) McCabe

  • New York
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Bill has been recognized as a leading patent litigator in U.S., European, and Asian venues.

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.

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Education & Credentials

Education

  • The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1988
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1980

Bar and Court Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Professional Recognition

  • Ranked in Chambers USA "America’s Leading Lawyers" for Intellectual Property: Patent, 2024

  • 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, 2013-2024

  • IAM Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Practitioners, 2023-2024

  • Recognized as a "Litigation Star" by Benchmark Litigation

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Patent Law, 2020-2025; Litigation - Patent, 2024-2025

Impact

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
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