Practices
Education
- The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2007
- highest honors
- The George Washington Law Review, Articles Editor
- The George Washington University, M.A., 1997
- La Salle University, B.A., 1995
- maxima cum laude
- General Honors
Judicial Clerkship
- Hon. Roger W. Titus, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 2007-2008
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
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Bill Zapf is an associate in the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property groups. He focuses primarily on patent litigation.
Representative Matters
- Representation of a major software company in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas and Northern District of California involving video software.
- Representation of a leading provider of vehicle inspection technology in patent litigation in the Northern District of Illinois involving on-board diagnostics systems.
- Representation of a pioneer pharmaceutical company in Hatch-Waxman litigation against three generic drug companies in the Southern District of New York involving a phosphate binding drug.
- Representation of Nintendo as a respondent in a Section 337 action before the International Trade Commission involving the Wii. In re Certain Video Game Machines and Related Three-Dimensional Pointing Devices, Inv. No. 337-TA-658.
Previous Experience
- Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Zapf was an in-house consultant at a major law firm, evaluating economic and financial issues in cases before the International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit, and other fora.
Pro Bono
- Represented a defendant accused of felony theft and identity fraud in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
Publications and Speeches
- "Now You See the Jurisdiction, Now You Don’t: Price v. Libya’s Subtle Erosion of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Doctrine," 74 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 794 (2006), Author
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