Ben Williams: Intellectual Property and Patent Attorney Based in Denver & Los Angeles

Ben Williams is a California-licensed intellectual property attorney and the founder of Williams Intellectual Property, Inc., a boutique firm he established in Denver, Colorado, in 2012 as a registered patent agent. He expanded to Los Angeles, California, in 2022, when he became a registered patent attorney admitted to the California Bar. Since 2012, he has personally won over 130 patents for his clients.

In 2026 he joined the prestigious Intermountain West firm Fabian VanCott (established 1874) as intellectual property counsel. He represents clients — both corporate and individual inventors — nationwide to help protect their ideas, their brands, and their vision. He is a member of the Haute Lawyer Network; his full profile is available at Ben Williams, and his firm brand lives at ip.law.

The Road Less Traveled to Intellectual Property Law

Born in Washington, D.C., Ben Williams grew up in England after his parents' divorce. He moved back to the U.S. in 1995, graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management, Land and Water concentration, with a focus on pedology, the study of the genesis, morphology, and classification of soil.

Before becoming a Registered Patent Agent in 2012, Williams worked as a biological technician for the National Resource Conservation Service and as an award-winning journalist for a conglomerate of local newspapers on Maryland's Eastern Shore. That atypical background in applied science and journalism turned out to be ideal preparation for a career in patent law: patent practice rewards attorneys who can absorb an unfamiliar technology quickly and then explain it in language an examiner, a judge, or a jury can follow.

How Ben Williams Built Williams Intellectual Property in Denver, Colorado

Williams learned the craft of claim drafting the demanding way — ghostwriting patent applications at a high-volume patent firm, writing scores of applications mainly for consumer products. In 2012, he founded Williams Intellectual Property, Inc. in Denver, Colorado, the same year the USPTO's Rocky Mountain Regional Office opened there. Over the following decade, the firm prepared hundreds of utility patent applications for clients in the United States and abroad.

After the birth of his daughter in 2017, Williams put himself through law school. He graduated with honors — a member of the law honors fraternity, Delta Theta Phi — in the summer of 2021. He passed the February 2022 California Bar on his first attempt and opened a Los Angeles office shortly thereafter.

In 2026, he purchased the ip.law domain and began growing the brand around it. In September 2026, he joined Fabian VanCott as IP counsel, pairing a boutique practice's responsiveness with the resources of a firm that has served the Intermountain West since 1874.

What Does Intellectual Property Attorney Ben Williams Do?

Williams represents clients in federal court and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in all things IP. His work includes prosecuting patent applications, registering trademarks, authoring licensing agreements, and resolving copyright disputes. He defends clients against patent and trademark infringement through inter partes and ex parte proceedings before the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and he enforces intellectual property in federal court and in administrative settings such as Amazon's APEX procedure and ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy for contested domain names — an increasingly important area as e-commerce and digital brand protection become central concerns for businesses of every size.

That breadth matters. A single client dispute rarely stays inside one doctrine: a copied product listing can raise design patent, trademark, copyright, and platform-policy questions in the same week. Attorneys who work across intellectual property can sequence those remedies instead of pursuing them piecemeal, and for founders the analysis often runs alongside ordinary business law concerns such as ownership, assignment, and contractor agreements.

For inventors seeking protection internationally, Williams has longstanding relationships with overseas firms to file under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and the Madrid Protocol — the principal treaties governing global patent and trademark protection. Coordinating those filings on schedule is one of the least forgiving parts of IP practice; priority deadlines do not move.

For Denver and Los Angeles businesses in need of a patent and trademark attorney with USPTO prosecution and Trial and Appeal Board experience; a copyright lawyer with federal court admission; or an intellectual property attorney who handles international patent filings under the PCT, Williams offers comprehensive IP services.

Ben Williams's Qualifications to Practice Intellectual Property Law

Williams holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management from the University of Maryland, College Park (2000) and a Juris Doctor from Abraham Lincoln University School of Law (2021). He passed the patent registration examination — the "patent bar" — in 2012 and was admitted as a Registered Patent Agent before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2022, passing the February 2022 California bar examination on his first attempt. He is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Central District of California, the District of Colorado, and the Southern District of Texas.

He is a member of Delta Theta Phi, the law honors fraternity, and was named a Power Lawyer by Lawyers of Distinction in 2022, 2023, and 2024. His firm was ranked a "Top Ten Law Firm in Intellectual Property" by Attorney and Practice Magazine's "Raising the Bar."

Why It Matters for Inventors and Brand Owners

More than 130 issued patents is not a marketing number; it is a record of applications that survived examination. For an inventor choosing counsel, the useful questions are whether the attorney has drafted claims that held up, whether he can defend them when challenged, and whether he can enforce them once granted. Williams's path — technical fieldwork, journalism, a decade of prosecution as an agent, then admission as an attorney and litigator — covers the full arc of a patent's life from disclosure to enforcement.

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