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William H. Shreve is a partner in our Orange County office.
Mr. Shreve has deep experience in the automotive and powersports industries. He has represented and advised companies with large and sophisticated patent portfolios, including Yamaha Motor Corporation. Mr. Shreve represented Yamaha Motor’s automotive division in connection with development and supply agreements with Ford, Volvo, and Aston Martin, and with intellectual property agreements with Audi, Ford, and Bombardier. He also represented Yamaha in litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Shreve was a manufacturing engineer at Teledyne Relays in Hawthorne, California, where he designed automated systems for the manufacture and inspection of electro-mechanical relays. He had clerkship positions with Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear from 1988 – 1989, and with Saidman, Sterne, Kessler and Goldstein of Washington, D.C.
Mr. Shreve joined the firm in 1990 and became a partner in 1995.
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Feature, "Bill Shreve and the Glaukos success story: When having an IP attorney pays off", InsideCounsel (July 2015)
Interview, "What’s the Secret to Successful Medical Device IP?", Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) Blog (July 2015)
Co-author, “Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” New Matter (Fall Quarter 1991)
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American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Bar Association
Orange County Patent Law Association
Orange County Bar Association
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