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William J. McCabe
Partner
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William McCabe offers clients 20+ years of experience with patent infringement and trade secret actions, licensing, and re-examination and interference proceedings. He is co-head of Ropes & Gray’s IP litigation group. A former start-up engineer for UOP, Bill brings an understanding of industrial settings that leads to effective and efficient legal solutions for his clients’ high-stakes litigations. LG, Motorola and other leaders in a diverse range of industries have relied on Bill over the years to help advance their position in both emerging and established marketplaces. Highlights from his many successful “bet the company” cases include the Gentex “mirror wars” and Symbol Technologies et al. v. Lemelson Foundation, which remains the biggest “defense” win in U.S. patent litigation history.
- Wi-LAN v. LG Electronics: Litigation concerned CDMA and Wi-Fi technology.
- Alloc v. Balterio: Litigation involved patents in the engineered flooring products industry.
- Sprint v. PAETEC: Successfully concluded litigation over patents integral to the client’s voice over Internet protocol business.
- Merit v. JVL: Successfully litigated a five-year case in which Merit alleged JVL’s entire product line infringed three Merit patents. A federal jury found that none of JVL’s current products infringed any Merit patent and denied Merit’s demand for lost profits, awarding instead only a token sum (less than seven percent of what was sought) for reasonable royalties for infringement by JVL’s past products.
- K.W. Muth et al v. Gentex Corp.: Lead attorney in a series of cases involving exterior automobile rearview mirror technology that incorporates a turn signal feature. Gentex was granted summary judgment of noninfringement on one patent. A decision of the second patent came after a two-week bench trial, which was heard in bankruptcy court, when the court found Muth’s patent invalid, unenforceable and not infringed.
- Symbol Technologies et al. v. Lemelson Foundation: Widely viewed as the biggest “defense” win in U.S. patent litigation history. Obtained judgment of noninfringement, invalidity, and unenforceability against Lemelson’s bar code and machine vision technology patents, ending Lemelson’s long-standing hold over more than 1,000 companies from which it had collected $1.5+ billion.
- Disabled In Action of Metropolitan NY v. Duane Reade: A pro bono case in which we successfully sued the largest pharmacy chain in New York for violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Days before the trial started, the chain capitulated on all major issues and is now in an enforcement and monitoring phase to ensure that all its stores comply with wheelchair accessibility and other ADA-compliance regulations.
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Honors & Awards
- IAM 250: “World’s Leading Patent Litigators” (2011)
- The International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers (2011)
- New York Super Lawyers (2007-2009)
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Education
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JD, The University of Chicago Law School, 1988
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BS (Chemical Engineering), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1980
Bar Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Memberships & Affiliations
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Arbitration Committee, 1997-2000)
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- New York Intellectual Property Law Association
- Intellectual Property Owners Association (Discovery Committee, 2007-present)
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