Frederick I. Williams

Frederick I. Williams is a highly experienced patent litigator with a career spanning over three decades, currently a founding partner at Williams Simons & Landis PC. He was previously a partner and led global intellectual property practices at Vinson & Elkins and Akin Gump. His practice is largely focused on the defense of industry-leading companies against high-stakes patent, trade secret, and complex commercial litigation claims. Williams consistently represents defendants, with his tracked appearances reflecting a preference for the defense side (1 defendant appearance, 0 plaintiff appearances).

Williams's expertise encompasses a broad array of technology sectors, including telecommunications, computer hardware and software, consumer electronics, IoT, e-commerce, publishing, retail, and health sciences. Notable cases include defending major technology companies in patent infringement lawsuits involving display technology, such as Delaware Display Group LLC v. VIZIO Inc., where he served as counsel for co-defendant Lenovo. His experience highlights feature successful outcomes, such as winning summary judgment of noninfringement in cases related to heat sink technology, 4G LTE wireless technologies, data transfer and voice calls on Wi-Fi networks, and peer-to-peer network technologies. He also secured summary judgment invalidating patents related to software products, with several of these victories affirmed on appeal by the Federal Circuit.

His practice also involves significant experience with PTAB and IPR proceedings. The Delaware Display Group LLC litigation, for instance, saw some asserted patents become subject to inter partes review.

Williams earned his J.D. from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1995 and is admitted to practice in Texas, as well as before numerous U.S. District Courts, including the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas and the District of Delaware. He is also admitted to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 3rd, 5th, and 11th Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.