William T. Ralston Associate   (801) 328-3600 wralston@kmclaw.com
Dr. Ralston is a member of Kirton & McConkie's Intellectual Property Practice Section. His practice specializes in the acquisition and management of patent and other intellectual property rights. Dr. Ralston joined Kirton & McConkie in 2007.

Experience Patent preparation and prosecution for domestic and international protection of inventions in the fields of wireless communications, signal processing, electronics, computer systems and networking, software, semiconductors, micro-electromechanical-systems, optics, audio-visual equipment, and others Opinions concerning validity and infringement of U.S. patents Prior engineering and management experience in the defense and commercial telecommunications industries. Key roles in the development of a major satellite defense system and multiple commercial wireless products Co-inventor of three issued U.S. Patents Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1982 Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society University of Southern California, M.S., Electrical Engineering, 1984 University of Massachusetts, Doctor of Engineering, 1993 University of Utah, J.D., 2005 Order of the Coif Member, Utah Law Review Recipient, W. J. Mitchell Family Endowed Merit Scholarship National 1st place in ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Paper Competition Received 5 CALI Excellence for the Future awards Admissions United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2004 Admitted to Practice: Utah, 2005

Affiliations Utah State Bar: Intellectual Property Section American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Publications "Foreign Equivalents to the U.S. Doctrine of Equivalents: We're Playing in the Same Key But It's Not Quite Harmony," 6 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 177 (2007) "Copyright in Computer-Composed Music: HAL meets Handel," 52 J. Copyright Soc'y USA 281 (2005). "Service Overlays on North American Standard Cellular," Proceedings of the SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering (1996) "Spread Spectrum Multiple Access for Mobile Meteor Burst Communications," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1995) "Distribution of Underdense Meteor Trail Duration and Duty Cycle and Applications to Meteor Scatter Communication System Design," Radio Science (1993) "High Speed FIR Filtering Using Low Speed FIR FIR Filter Chips," International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (1992) "Orbit Calculations by Pocket calculator Part II," AMSAT Newsletter (March 1978) Interests & Hobbies Dr. Ralston is a federally-licensed Amateur Radio Operator. He also enjoys swing, ballroom, and folk dancing and playing music.