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Wilhelm L. Rao
Shareholder
Email. wrao@mcandrews-ip.com
Tel. (312) 775-8190
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property Litigation; Patent and Trademark Procurement, Protection and Portfolio Management; IP Licensing; Intellectual Property/Technology Opinions and Investigations; Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Education
Washington University, B.S., cum laude
Washington University, M.S.E.
Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., with honors
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois. Member of the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western District of Wisconsin and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Professional Experience
Wil Rao is a shareholder at McAndrews. He has been with the firm since 1997.
Wil’s practice has focused on litigating, procuring and developing intellectual property rights across a wide-range of technologies. He has represented clients from Fortune 50 corporations to small burgeoning businesses, as well as individuals. Wil has been involved in areas ranging from all facets of patent prosecution to written opinions to reexaminations to licensing to the successful multi-venue, multi-patent, multi-party patent litigation all across the United States, both at the trial and appellate levels. Wil has represented clients in a range of technology areas, including: medical devices, specialty chemicals, sporting goods and equipment, HVAC, railway wheels, gaming equipment, heavy machinery, baby/children's products, apparel, consumer electronics and accessories, consumer retail products, furniture, fabric design, hardware and tools, dental equipment, pigments and lubricants.
Wil is a trial-experienced litigator. His litigation experience has touched on all facets of complex litigation, including pre-filing investigations, pleadings and motions, discovery, pretrial (including Markman proceedings), hearings and taking witnesses at trial. A number of matters that Wil has been involved with have been resolved by alternative dispute resolution, including resolution through the American Arbitration Association. Wil has also represented clients pro bono, including recently in a state court proceeding. Representative client representations in litigation matters during the past three years include:
• In the Matter of Certain Cast Steel Railway Wheels, Investigation No. 337-TA-655, before the International Trade Commission (pending) (trade secret misappropriation);
• ICU Medical, Inc. v. ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., No. 2008-1077 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (appeal, patent infringement);
• In Re Certain Catheters, Consoles And Other Apparatus For Cryosurgery, And Components Thereof, Investigation No. 337-TA-642, before the International Trade Commission (2008) (patent infringement);
• CryoCor et al v. CryoCath, 08-0031-GMS (Delaware) (patent infringement);
• ICU Medical, Inc. v. ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., No. SA CV 04-0689 MRP (VBKx) (C.D. Cal. 2004-07) (patent infringement).
Wil has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors and is a member of several select patent and non-patent law associations.
Awards and Honors
Chicago-Kent College Of Law academic scholar and awarded the highest academic honors in Patent Law, Evidence, Trial Advocacy and Practice Before the Federal Circuit; Member, Chicago-Kent Trial Advocacy Team; Member, Moot Court Honor Society; Judicial Extern for Honorable Blanche Manning of the Northern District of Illinois; Teaching Assistant: Evidence and Evidence Advocacy; graduate level Advanced Material Strength and Elasticity.
In a survey of his peers published in Chicago magazine and Super Lawyers magazine, Wil was named as one of Illinois’ "Rising Stars" in intellectual property law for years 2007, 2008, 2009.
Memberships
Intellectual Property Owner’s Association (the IPO) (served as co-Chair of the Market Power Committee, 2001-2002 and on the Patent Litigation committee, among others); American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) (serving on several committees); Federal Circuit Bar Association (serving on the Patent Office Practice committee); ITC Trial Lawyers Association; American Bar Association (section member IP, Litigation and law practice management); and Illinois State Bar Association.
Publications
Hart III, Herbert D. and Wilhelm L. Rao, “No Prize for Being Second, An Introduction to U.S. Patent Interference Practice”, Modern Drug Discovery of the American Chemical Society, 2002
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