Zachary S. Piccolomini

Specialty / focus. The verifiable record for Zachary Piccolomini (Wolf Greenfield, Boston) is an electrical/computer-technology patent practice: video compression and related standards (H.263–H.266), cable and wireless standards (DOCSIS, 3G–5G, Wi-Fi), machine vision and image processing, video games/VR, data storage, semiconductor fabrication and memory devices, plus medical devices, power generators, and 3D printing. His practice spans patent prosecution and portfolio strategy as well as district court litigation, ITC matters, and post-grant proceedings (Wolf Greenfield bio; IAM Patent 1000).

Side preference. Per the tracked data he has exactly one appearance — plaintiff side, as of counsel, in Multimedia Technologies Pte. Ltd. v. VIZIO, Inc. (smart-TV/streaming-UI patents, including a "live television application on top of live feed" patent, filed in E.D. Tex. in 2023). That single plaintiff-side entry is atypical of everything else that is publicly verifiable: his litigation and PTAB record is overwhelmingly defense/petitioner side, representing operating companies such as Broadcom, Google, LG, a major smartphone manufacturer, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, a content-delivery network provider, and a telecommunications company. Any characterization of him as an NPE/assertion-side lawyer would rest on that one tracked case alone, and sources searched did not independently confirm his appearance in the Multimedia matter.

Firm context. He is a shareholder in the Electrical & Computer Technologies practice at Wolf Greenfield & Sacks (Boston), promoted to shareholder effective January 2020 and arriving as a lateral in 2017. Before that he was Counsel in the intellectual property group at WilmerHale, an Am Law 50 firm, where he worked on portfolio development, post-grant proceedings, and patent litigation. Before law school he was an engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Air and Missile Defense Technology Division.

Notable matters and PTAB. Publicly described results include invalidating all challenged claims in three IPRs for a semiconductor manufacturer (wireless transmission technology), with Federal Circuit briefing; a defense jury verdict for a global automaker after a three-week, four-patent trial in W.D. Wash. that also produced a trade-secret misappropriation finding against the plaintiffs and their CEO; summary judgment of non-infringement and invalidity for a semiconductor maker; summary judgment of exhaustion for a networking supplier's customers following a covenant not to sue; and favorable settlements for a smartphone maker (N.D. Cal./E.D. Tex./ITC) and a telecom defendant on Wi-Fi access point patents. He appears regularly in PTAB proceedings, including as petitioner's counsel in Wi-Fi One v. Broadcom (IPR2013-00602) and in Google/LG petitions against U.S. Patent No. 6,792,353; his practice description emphasizes IPR, reissue, and ex parte/inter partes reexamination experience plus Federal Circuit appeals.

Bar / education. Massachusetts bar since 2009; Suffolk University Law School, J.D. 2009; USPTO Registration No. 63,390 (Super Lawyers profile; USPTO/PTAB filings).

Identity caveat. The authoritative case list gives the name as "Zachary S. Piccolomini," while all public sources I located identify him as Zachary P. (Paul) Piccolomini at Wolf Greenfield, USPTO Reg. No. 63,390. Given the uncommon surname and identical field, these are likely the same attorney, but I could not confirm the middle initial or verify the "of counsel" designation in the tracked Multimedia docket — he is currently a shareholder, not of counsel, at Wolf Greenfield, so that designation may reflect a per-matter entry or a different individual. This should be confirmed before relying on the Multimedia Technologies v. VIZIO appearance.