PERSONAL PROFILE
IP PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Mr. Hulsey established HULSEY Intellectual Property Lawyers, P.C. to apply a highly-developed specialty and experience in energy technologies, including nuclear reactor and materials processing technologies. As a practicing patent attorney, Mr. Hulsey has developed and implemented complete intellectual property protection and licensing programs for numerous companies. Mr. Hulsey has committed his law practice and professional endeavors to promoting entrepreneurship and the protection and commercialization of his clients’ intellectual property rights. Clients receiving HULSEYIP services range in distance from Slovakia, Europe to Adelaide, Australia as our firm provides representation to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as well as other intellectual property offices of nations around the globe. International services are provided via a network of foreign associates with whom our practice collaborates daily.
Mr. Hulsey serves on the Selection Committee for the Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation & Commercialization under The State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund Program. Also, Bill will be a Judge in the nationally-recognized 2009 Idea to Product (I2P) UT Competition at the University of Texas campus.
Through his work as a Fellow of the IC2 Institute, Mr. Hulsey has taught intellectual property rights formation, protection, and commercialization on all continents, except Antarctica, and HULSEY Intellectual Property Lawyers, P.C. provides a team of highly-qualified lawyers, agents, and staff representing clients in patent, trademark, and other intellectual property issues in locations ranging from Slovakia to Australia.
Today, Bill is part of a multi-disciplined task force from the University of Texas at Austin serving the Portuguese nation—The University Technology Entrepreneurship Network (UTEN). UTEN knowledge transfer supports objectives that are becoming more and more important for universities in Europe, the US, and elsewhere: (1) excellence in education and research, (2) enhanced interaction with the local region, and (3) enhanced internationalization. The UT-Austin/Portugal UTEN cooperative program fosters ongoing S&T commercialization activities and experiences of relevant Portuguese universities and institutions to build on Portugal’s existing talent and knowledge base to help meet Portugal’s most critical challenges in the area of university-industry collaboration and S&T commercialization.
Bill also is the author of Creating, Managing, And Licensing Intellectual Property Assets, a major work of 30 hours of streaming video courses providing intellectual property education and training, through Stanford University Center for Professional Development/Semizone, Inc.
Bill holds an Secret security clearance and has served the Department of Defense in active duty and reserve military, civil servant engineering, and private law practice attorney capacities for a period spanning over thirty (30) years. As a licensed patent attorney, Mr. Hulsey has handled a wide variety of classified patent, proprietary information, trade secret, and intellectual property licensing and contracting matters.
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt School of Law (J.D.; Order of the Coif; Senior Managing Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review)
University of Virginia (M.A., Economics)
United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program (Nuclear Reactor Plant Theory, Testing & Operations)
Commissioned Officer (Lt.Cmdr; Ret.), United States Navy Submarine Force
Rhodes College (B.S., Mathematics)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS
State Bar of Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals - Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court – Northern & Western District of Texas
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES
Energy & Power Distribution Technologies
Aerospace & Transportation Technology
Electronics and Computer Hardware & Software
Consumer Products & Services
Telecommunications
Optics
Financial Services
Internet & e-Commerce
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Devices
Nanotechnology
Semiconductor Processing & Devices
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas’ IC2 Institute
Selection Committee Member, Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation & Commercialization
Federal Circuit Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Bar Association
Travis County Bar Association
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
International Institute for Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation
Navy Reserve Officer, Engineering Duty Officer (Commanding Officer, Submarine Base Pearl Harbor Unit 409); Little Rock, Arkansas (1991-1993)
Submarine Officer, Lieutenant Commander (O-4); U.S. Navy Submarine Force (USS Jacksonville SSN699 Los Angeles Fast Attack Nuclear Submarine) (1977-1981)
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Partner, Hughes & Luce, LLP (2000-2003)
Partner, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, LLP (1998-2000)
Partner, Baker Botts (1989-1998)
Associate, Baker Donelson (1987-1989)
