William H. Pratt

Partner

William Pratt's practice is focused on intellectual property licensing, government contracts, export controls, and the arbitration and litigation of intellectual property disputes. His clients include U.S. and international corporations involved in a broad spectrum of technologies.

Mr. Pratt lectures extensively on intellectual property licensing and export controls, including presentations to corporations, law and business schools, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Aerospace Industry Association, and the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada) (LES). He also teaches a course on Drafting Patent License Agreements for the Patent Resources Group.

Highlights

• Currently serves as intellectual property counsel for the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration — a standard setting organization created by the eight major automobile manufacturers.
• Administered the export control program worldwide for Litton Industries, 1984-1988.
• Served as confidential assistant to the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of commerce during the Reagan Administration, 1982-1984.

Professional Recognition

• Listed in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine as one of 250 of the world's leading patent and technology licensing practitioners, 2011.
• Elected, in graduate school, to Pi Alpha Alpha and received the U.S. Presidential Management Intern Award, 1982.

Professional Activities

• District of Columbia Bar
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• The Washington International Trade Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association
• Licensing Executives Society (chair, Committee on Government Regulation of Technology Exports)

Select Publications

• "The Collaborative Research House that Bayh-Dole Built: Perfectly Constructed or in Need of Repairs?" les Nouvelles, Dec. 2010.
• "The 'Deemed Export' Rule: Foreign Nationals in U.S. Companies," Journal of the Customs Intellectual Property Information Center (Japan), June 1999.
• "Going International: Fundamentals of International Business: Intellectual Property Rights What Are They and How Does a Company Secure Them?" International Trade for the Nonspecialist, 1997.
• "Arbitrating Patent Disputes," Managing Intellectual Property, March 1994.