Nicole Williams is the Sr. Director of Intellectual Property and Litigation at 10x Genomics, a leader in single cell and spatial transcriptomics. Prior to joining 10x, she was a principal at Fish & Richardson, litigating patent cases in District Courts, the ITC and the PTAB. She has extensive experience in the life sciences, including both pharmaceutical, biosimilar, and DNA sequencing technologies. Nicole received her J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and her B.S. in Bioengineering with an emphasis in Cellular and Tissue Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She now leads the litigation strategy for US and foreign cases at 10x Genomics.