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Mr. Hulsey is rated "AV—Preeminent" by the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory and "10 out of 10—Superb" by the Avvo.com lawyer rating service with the highest peer and client review rating of all of Avvo.com's 3800+ listed patent attorneys in America. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from the Vanderbilt School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif honorary scholastic society, served as Senior Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and formed the By-Laws and Charter for the Nashville Business Incubation Center as a Law Intern. Prior to his legal career, he served as a commissioned Naval Officer (Lieutenant Commander) in the United States Navy Submarine Force as a member of the USS Jacksonville (SSN699) nuclear submarine pre-commissioning and initial sea trials crew and then as a Scientific & Technical Intelligence Analyst for the United States Army’s Foreign Science & Technology Center in Charlottesville, Virginia and Electronics Research & Development Command in Adelphi, Maryland.

He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Rhodes College, where he graduated With Distinction. Mr. Hulsey is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Registered to Practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, The United States Federal District Court for the Northern & Western Districts of Texas. He serves as a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin. Recently, he has been elected a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

Mr. Hulsey established HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers (HULSEYIP) to apply a highly developed specialty and experience in a broad span of technical fields. HULSEYIP takes great pride in serving emerging growth companies competing in global markets with products and services relating to renewable and sustainable energy technologies, life sciences, electronics, environmental innovations, software, and aerospace technologies. As broad as are HULSEYIP’s technology proficiencies, the firm is yet tightly focused in providing its clients with the highest quality in patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark legal services. As a practicing patent attorney, Mr. Hulsey has developed and implemented complete intellectual property protection and licensing programs for numerous companies.

Clients receiving HULSEYIP services range in geographic diversity north-to-south from Norway to New Zealand and east-to-west from Siberia to Singapore. HULSEYIP represents clients before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as well as other intellectual property offices of nations around the globe via a network of foreign associates with whom the practice daily collaborates. Through his legal work, as well as with teaching through the IC2 Institute, Mr. Hulsey has taught intellectual property rights formation, protection, and commercialization in over 34 countries and on all continents, except Antarctica.

Mr. Hulsey has committed his law practice and professional endeavors to promoting entrepreneurship and the protection and commercialization of his clients’ intellectual property rights. His range of legal representation covers initial IP portfolio development work through litigation in enforcing clients IP rights. Mr. Hulsey has represented clients in intellectual property matters before Federal District Courts in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, Texas, as well as in San Jose, California and Rochester, New York. Additionally, Mr. Hulsey has been involved as IP counsel for the intensive due diligence phases of a number of multi-million dollar corporate transactions involving clients in the telecommunications, photovoltaic solar cell, and electronic medical sensor technology fields. As a result of the IP protection and commercialization efforts of his firm, clients have received multiples of their initial valuations in these transactions.

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. He also frequently serves as a Judge in the internationally recognized Idea to Product (I2P®) UT Competition at the University of Texas campus. Most recently, He served as a judge for The I2P® Portugal Competition 2010, which has organized by COTEC Portugal.

Most recently, Mr. Hulsey has led collaborative efforts with The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce to host the 2010 Texas Global Intellectual Property Summit. This event was attended by approximately 400 participants and featured (a) Mr. David Kappos, Under-Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property/Director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office; (b) Congressman and House Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R, Tx-21); (c) Mr. James Pooley, Deputy Director General of The World Intellectual Property Organization for Technology & Innovation; and (d) Mr. LEE Soowon, Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Mr. Hulsey has led efforts by the Austin IP stakeholder committee at large to petition the USPTO to establish an Austin USPTO Satellite Office, as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011. Furthermore, Mr. Hulsey is presently leading efforts to nominate Austin technology economy legend, Pike Powers, to receive the 2012 National Medal of Technology & Innovation.

Over the past several years, Mr. Hulsey also has served as part of a multi-disciplined task force from the University of Texas at Austin under the banner of 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.

Bill also is the author of CREATING, MANAGING, AND LICENSING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS, a major work of over 30 hours of streaming video courses providing intellectual property education and training, through Stanford University.

Through his work with the IC2 Institute and personal travel, Mr. Hulsey has visited and worked in over 37 countries throughout the world. An avid singer, Bill is a tenor with the Texas Choral Consort, one of Texas’ leading audition-only choruses, and the St. Michael’s Episcopal Church Chancel Choir. He has sung an extensive variety of choral works from a broad array of composers over a ten-year period. Presently, he sings as a tenor in the Austin Civic Chorus, the Conspirare Symphony Chorus, and the Texas Choral Consort.