Patent and Trade Secret Expert
An Expert in Manufacturing, Equipment & Machines, and Automation Devices
Patent Infringement
William S. Howard, PhD is a practicing machinery design engineer with six US patents (and three more patents in Europe). All of these are in the field of Industrial Machinery, covering both mechanical and software inventions. Dr. Howard has significant experience with Intellectual Property litigation, including Patent Infringement, Patent Invalidity, and Trade Secrets.Dr. William Howard has many years of experience developing patented machinery. In addition, he has designed around other company's patented machinery. This experience can help you to determine if one company's machinery infringes upon another's patent.
Patent Invalidity
Dr. William S Howard holds several machine patents, and has designed and developed various patented machinery, and has assisted others to develop machinery based upon their patents. This engineering experience will help you to determine if a company's patent is invalid, by reasons such as Obviousness or an Inadequate Written Description.Dr. William S. Howard, PhD has trial and deposition experience in both Patent Infringement, and Patent Invalidity.
PTAB Cases
Dr. William S Howard has defended many patents against invalidity claims at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He can help you with your PTAB case.Trade Secrets
Dr. William S. Howard has developed and protected trade secrets related to industrial machinery for dozens of companies, and has performed both forward and reverse engineering of machinery. He works for both trade secret owners and accused parties, and has trial and deposition experience in trade secret cases.More about trade secret cases
William S. Howard, PhD
