William Porter

william.porter@communitypatent.org

William Porter has joined the Community Patent Review Project as a consultant for Intellectual Property Law matters, and for overall project planning. His education background includes a B.S. in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.A. in mathematics from Fordham University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He retired from IBM after a career that included programming-related organizations (from which he transitioned when he was Senior Manager, Programming Development Technology, in the area of operating system development), and IBM's law department (on retirement he was Group Counsel, Intellectual Property Law, for the Systems and Technology Group - directing IBM's IP Law departments in Austin Texas; Poughkeepsie, New York; Rochester, Minnesota; Raleigh, North Carolina; San Jose, California; and Tucson, Arizona.) Bill is admitted to practice in New York and before the US Patent and Trademark office, and now does consulting in the area of Intellectual Property Law.