William R. Poynter

William R. Poynter, Fractional General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Randolph Square IP and RSIP Management.

Mr. Poynter has over 20 years of experience and is currently a principal at Kaleo Legal with an active intellectual property and complex civil litigation practice, mostly in the federal courts of the Eastern District of Virginia. As a full-time litigator for much of his career, Billy has handled IP cases involving a variety of technologies, including software, business methods, telecommunications technology, mechanical devices, chemical compositions, and electrical technology. He has litigated cases around the country, including in popular patent litigation jurisdictions such as the Central and Northern Districts of California, the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the District of Delaware. Billy has particular experience litigating patent, intellectual property, and other cases in the Eastern District of Virginia, also known as the “Rocket Docket,” as both lead and local counsel. Billy is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.

Past work experiences include Hunton & Williams; Law Clerk to the Honorable Alvin A. Schall, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Williams Mullen (Chair, IP Litigation, Vice-Chair, IP Section).

He earned his undergraduate degrees from Washington & Lee University in 1998, a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2002.