Frederick Williams is a Senior Partner in Burns & Levinson LLP's Intellectual Property Practice and head of the Washington DD segnemt of the firm's patent prosecution practice. In the latter portion of his of his career, Mr. Williams has concentrated increasingly on patent prosecution and related areas of patent law, including clearance opinions and "inventing around" analysis. As part of his practice he helps clients develop patent strategy, principally by identifying facts and circumstances upon which decisions ought to turn. In addition to representing inventors and companies in patent prosecution, Mr. Williams serves as counsel to venture capital firms and individual investors evaluating start-up companies, providing assessments of patent portfolios of target companies, and due diligence review as required.
Mr. Williams has developed areas of special technical concentration within the patent prosecution practice. He and others in the Patent Prosecution Practice have acquired expertise in prosecuting patents in the areas of medical devices and surgical instruments, digital signal processing and other software, complex system architecture, and electromechanical systems.
Mr. Williams received his J.D. degree magna cum laude from The University of Michigan Law School in 1974, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear physics, with special emphasis in computational physics, from the University of North Carolina. Mr. Williams also received a B.S. degree in physics from Boston College.