Tom Williams

Tom Williams is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Crowell & Moring in Chicago, IL, where responsibilities include advising individuals, startups, and corporations on various intellectual property matters such as patent and trademark procurement, litigation, and licensing. Prior experience includes serving as an Intellectual Property Attorney at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP and as an Associate Patent and Trademark Attorney at Greenberg Traurig. Tom's engineering background encompasses roles at Knowles Corporation as a Fuel Control Valve Project Manager, Rolls-Royce as a Senior Design/Project Engineer for gas turbine engines, and Boeing as a Rocket Engine Turbomachinery Engineer. Tom holds a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge, and a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University.