Bill Boice joined the firm as a litigation partner in June 1980. Mr. Boice has substantial trial experience representing significant corporate clients in a wide variety of cases. His trial practice is focused on complex litigation including patent and trade secret litigation, class actions, business torts and other business litigation. Mr. Boice has tried cases in courts throughout the United States and has argued appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, as well as The Georgia Court of Appeals and Supreme Court.

Mr. Boice is listed in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for his work in Intellectual Property and General Commercial Litigation. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law for 2011 and 2012 and was recognized in The International Who's Who of Business Law for 2009 and 2011. He was also recognized as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Litigation in 2009 and for Intellectual Property Litigation in 2010 and 2011 by SuperLawyers magazine and named to Georgia Trend's 2009, 2010 and 2011 "Legal Elite" list. In 2007, Mr. Boice was recognized in Benchmark: Litigation as a Georgia "Litigation Star." He is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

Professional & Community Activities

Atlanta Bar Association, Litigation Section, Member

Bleckley Inn of Court, Member

State Bar of Georgia, Member

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (1974)
  • Emory University, B.A., Economics (1968)

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia (1974)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Georgia Supreme Court

Who We Are

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William H. Boice

Experience Highlights

DataTreasury Corp. v. Wachovia Corp. and DataTreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co.
Represented Wachovia Bank, Branch Banking & Trust Company, M&T Bank and Comerica Bank against DataTreasury in patent infringement suits in more
Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. SoftLayer Technologies Inc., et al.; Red Hat Inc. v. Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC
Represented Red Hat Inc., Amazon.com, SoftLayer Technologies, Rackspace, Whole Foods, The Planet.com Internet Services, and NYSE Euronext in a patent more
Nike Inc. v. adidas America Inc.
Lead counsel defending adidas in a patent infringement suit brought by Nike in the Eastern District of Texas more
Verizon Services Corp. v. Cox Fibernet Va., Inc.
Trial counsel on behalf of Cox Communications, which was accused of infringing a competitor’s patents relating to voice over IP technology. We more