Cecil Bryan Wilson

C. Bryan Wilson is a Partner at Williams & Connolly LLP, where he co-chairs the firm's Unfair Competition, Trade Secrets, and Restrictive Covenants practice group. His practice focuses on complex commercial matters, including litigation involving breach of contract, deceptive trade practices, copyright infringement, breach of fiduciary duty, false advertising, fraud, federal procurement laws, False Claims Act violations, and theft of trade secrets. While his firm profile primarily highlights these areas, his professional appearances include a tracked defense-side patent litigation matter.

Wilson is an experienced litigator who represents both plaintiffs and defendants. On the plaintiff side, he has secured judgments exceeding $825 million, while on the defense side, he has successfully defeated claims seeking billions of dollars. A notable outcome includes prevailing on behalf of a commercial real estate data provider, CoStar Group, Inc., which obtained a $500 million judgment and a permanent injunction against a competitor based on claims of copyright infringement, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breach of contract, and unfair competition.

His experience also extends to federal procurement disputes, where he has successfully protested an Army procurement valued over $850 million and intervened in bid protests for a security services firm. Based on available professional profiles, there is no indication of his regular involvement in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.

Wilson is a graduate of Miami University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and Duke University School of Law, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, where he served as an Article Editor of the Duke Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.