For over 25 years, he has been assisting Australian and overseas clients with obtaining, enforcing, and advising on Intellectual Property (IP) rights. This has included providing strategic advice in relation to patent, design and trade mark IP rights with a specific focus in the technical areas of medical and surgical devices, materials science, chemical/process engineering, clean technology and energy; mining and bulk materials handling, agribusiness, food technology and nutrition.

William’s engineering studies focused on modelling industrial biochemical processes particularly in wastewater treatment. His final year of engineering study was completed on exchange at the Ecole National Superieur d’Ingenieur Genie Chimique (ENSIGC) in Toulouse, a member of the French Grande Ecoles. Here he conducted extensive research in the modelling of fluids in continuous and batch processes and participated in several industry placements with several large companies

With a keen interest in supporting the local Australian industry on how best to utilise the Intellectual property system, William frequently provides seminars and workshops including as a co-presenter of the IP Workshop for the Health Commercialisation Training Program (HCTP) from 2018 to present. He is also active within the Patent Attorney profession having been elected a councilor of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Australia (IPTA) since 2017 in which capacity he convenes the International Patents Committee and the Patent Legislation committee.