Bill Geary

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Two different attorneys share this name — I need to disambiguate carefully.

Professional Summary — "Bill Geary" (IdeaHub, Inc.)

Disambiguation note. Two attorneys named Bill Geary appear in IP sources, and they should not be conflated: (1) William C. "Bill" Geary III, the Boston patent/trademark prosecutor and ITC/district court litigator at Mintz Levin (Case Western JD; registered patent attorney No. 31359); and (2) the Bill Geary in this dataset — the in-house patent-licensing executive at IDEAHUB, Inc. The remainder of this summary addresses the latter. Note that Mintz separately represented IdeaHub in one Federal Circuit appeal (below), which is a coincidence of firms, not of persons.

Practice focus and firm context. The tracked Bill Geary is a patent-licensing executive rather than a courtroom advocate. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at IDEAHUB, Inc. (Seoul-based patent monetization firm; also identified in trade press as EVP of Acquisitions and Business Development), responsible for forming and launching worldwide non-exclusive patent pools. Before IdeaHub he spent roughly 17 years at MPEG LA (later Via LA) as VP of Business Development, leading the ATSC broadcast standard and HEVC licensing programs among others; before that, 11 years at Samsung Electronics' Washington, DC office as General Patent Counsel, where his bio states he directed dozens of U.S. and overseas litigations and negotiated hundreds of patent licenses. Technology exposure is therefore standards-heavy: video and audio coding (HEVC, MPEG, ATSC), streaming/DASH, wireless charging, digital interfaces, semiconductors, mobile communications, and displays/optics. I found no source describing him as a first-chair trial lawyer, and no bar admission or education record specific to this individual — the bar/education data returned in searches belongs to the Mintz attorney.

Side preference. The dataset's single tracked appearance is plaintiff-side, in-house at IdeaHub — consistent with the monetization/NPE posture of IdeaHub's U.S. campaigns, which are filed through affiliates such as Helios Streaming, Pantech Corporation, General Video, FairLight Innovations, and ImberaTek. That is a very thin sample (n=1) and should be treated as directional, not as a defensible "plaintiff-only" characterization of his career; his Samsung tenure was principally defensive and licensing-side work for an operating company.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. Verifiable IdeaHub-related litigation includes the Delaware and C.D. Cal. MPEG-DASH suits brought by Helios Streaming/IdeaHub against Showtime, Vudu, and Fandango (2019–2021); IdeaHub Inc. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2024-1684 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 10, 2026), a Rule 36 summary affirmance of the PTAB's decision in PGR2022-00044 (appellant argued by Mintz); the July 2025 Pantech/ITC campaign against Lenovo, TCL, Tinno, OnePlus, and HMD over 5G/LTE standard patents; and 2026 filings by FairLight Innovations (LED patents vs. TCL, E.D. Tex.) and ImberaTek (vs. Sony, E.D. Tex., July 2026). IdeaHub is a repeat patent owner before the PTAB (e.g., PGR2022-00044; IPR2020-01689, Vudu v. Ideahub), but I did not verify that Geary personally appears as counsel or back-up counsel in any IPR/PGR, and dockets for the affiliates above list outside litigation firms (e.g., McKool Smith; Culbertson/Tidwell), not Geary. Most of these suits also predate or are contemporaneous with his 2024–25 arrival at IdeaHub, so no outcome — verdict, settlement, or appeal result — can be reliably attributed to him personally.