William B. Chandler III

Attorney Summary: William B. Chandler III

Specialty / technology areas. The tracked docket shows a single plaintiff-side appearance as Delaware local counsel for Neurent Medical Ltd. in Neurent Medical Ltd. v. Aerin Medical Inc. (D. Del., No. 1:24-cv-01070), a medical-device patent case involving RF-based devices and methods for treating rhinitis and nasal airway obstruction. That places the practice squarely in the life-sciences/medical-device corner of Delaware patent litigation, consistent with the IP docket of his listed firm, Potter Anderson & Corroon, which handles patent work spanning medical devices, pharmaceuticals/Hatch-Waxman, biotechnology, and computer/telecom technology.

Side preference. The tracked record is entirely plaintiff-side (1 plaintiff, 0 defendant), albeit in a local-counsel capacity. Potter Anderson's IP practice is publicly described as balanced between plaintiffs and defendants, so no durable side preference can be inferred from this thin record.

Firm context. The case is attributed to Potter Anderson & Corroon, a Wilmington-based firm whose IP group regularly serves as Delaware counsel in District of Delaware patent cases (per firm materials, for clients including Intel, Amazon, Baxter, Mylan, and Teva). Important caveat: the best-known Delaware lawyer of this name — William B. Chandler III, former Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery (1989–2011) — is a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner practicing corporate governance and M&A, was previously at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, and has no public patent-litigation profile. No independent public profile of a separate William B. Chandler III practicing patent litigation at Potter Anderson could be located, so the case attribution should be verified against the docket before relying on it.

Notable cases, PTAB/IPR, bar/education. The Neurent v. Aerin dispute sits inside a broader litigation cluster with parallel PTAB activity — IPR2024-00278 (instituted, final written decision issued July 2025 and appealed) and IPR2025-01124 through -01127 — but no public record confirms Chandler's personal appearance in those IPRs. For the Wilson Sonsini practitioner sharing the name, credentials are well sourced (J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, 1976; LL.M., Yale Law School, 1979; Delaware bar), but those credentials belong to the corporate-governance lawyer, not necessarily to the patent-litigation local counsel reflected in the case list. Education and bar information for the Potter Anderson-attributed practitioner could not be independently verified.