William (Bill) Shaffer

Mr. Shaffer (Bill) focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling, patent portfolio building/management, patent analysis and post-grant patent procedures, including reexamination and reissue proceedings. He has been a trusted advisor to a number of the largest companies in the electronics and software industries helping the companies grow their patent portfolios and navigate complex patent issues. Specific technologies Mr. Shaffer has experience with include, among others, consumer products, thin film processing, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, wafer inspection and metrology, chip-level packaging, computer generated imagery (CGI) animation, LiDAR, photovoltaic systems and films, computer architecture and software- and Internet-based technologies.