E. Danielle Thompson Williams

E. Danielle Thompson Williams — Patent Litigation Profile

Specialty / focus. Williams is a high-stakes business and IP litigator whose patent infringement work has concentrated in the top U.S. patent venues — Eastern and Western District of Texas (including Waco), Delaware, and the Eastern District of North Carolina — across financial services, high tech, semiconductors, telecommunications, software, mobile applications, and consumer products (per King & Spalding and Winston & Strawn bios). Her broader practice spans trade secrets, copyright, antitrust, and commercial disputes, with a noted focus on damages strategy built on her MBA (IAM Patent 1000, 2022–2025).

Side preference. Her patent practice is overwhelmingly defendant-side. Web-searchable matters show her defending operating companies — Google, Wells Fargo, Target, BMC Software, Adobe, Santander, Williams-Sonoma, and Nordstrom — against NPE/PAE suits in Texas and elsewhere. This aligns with the tracked data: her one tracked appearance is a defendant-side local-counsel role; zero plaintiff-side patent appearances are recorded. Her notable plaintiff work (23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR) was antitrust, not patent.

Firm context. She joined King & Spalding in March 2026 as a partner in Trial and Global Disputes and co-leader of the IP team (per Kinney Recruiting's report of the nine-partner group move). Previously she was managing partner of Winston & Strawn's Charlotte office and co-chair of its IP practice (Legal 500); earlier career stops include Fish & Richardson (Atlanta) and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (Winston-Salem).

Notable matters. The tracked case is unidentified in the record, so no name can be given. Verifiable patent matters include Authentixx LLC v. Santander Bank, N.A. (S.D.N.Y. 2024, admitted pro hac vice for the defendant), FrameTech LLC v. BMC Software (W.D. Tex. 2023), SimpleAir, Inc. v. Google (E.D. Tex.), DataMotion Texas, LLC v. Wells Fargo (E.D. Tex.), and the Droplets suits against Target, Nordstrom, and Williams-Sonoma. Her most prominent recent result is the antitrust trial win in 23XI Racing v. NASCAR, which earned Am Law "Litigator of the Week" (Dec. 2025). No patent verdicts were verifiable from the search results.

PTAB / bar / education. No evidence surfaced of a regular IPR/PGR practice; her bio references USPTO experience generally, but no specific PTAB proceedings were found. She was admitted in North Carolina in 1996 (also Georgia per directory listings) and to the Federal, Third, Fourth, and Eleventh Circuits. Education: B.A., UNC–Chapel Hill (1992); J.D. and M.B.A., Wake Forest University (1996).