Bill Hulsey

BILL HULSEY PATENT LAWYER – IP & PATENTS established HULSEY PC to apply a highly developed specialty and experience in a broad span of technical fields. HULSEY PC 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.The Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory has (a) rated William Hulsey Attorney “AV-Preeminent“ for the past six years, (b) rated him as “AV-Preeminent Judicial Edition” (the highest possible rating), (c) named him a “Top Rated Texas Attorney for Ethics and Legal Ability,” (d) awarded him repeated with their “Client Distinction Award” based on multiple evaluations of his client service and relationships skills, and (e) listed him in their Bar Registry of Preeminent Attorneys. He is listed among The Best Lawyers in America for patent law, and Hulsey PC as one The Best Law Firms in America. Bill has been recognized with a “Top 1% Most Honored Professionals” award by The American Registry. For the past five years, Av vo Legal Directory, America’s largest on-line attorney directory, has both rated Mr. Hulsey as “10 out of 10-Superb“ and recognized him with their “Clients Choice Award” in the areas of Patent Law, Trademark Law, and Licensing Law. During this period, www.Avvo.com has continuously ranked his patent practice with their highest client rating in America of all practicing U.S. patent attorneys.Today, Mr. Hulsey serves as a Global Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin and has served on the Board of Directors for the Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization (RCIC), as well as over five years on RCIC Selection Committees in the Central Texas. Mr. Hulsey has served on the Selection Committee for the Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation & Commercialization under The State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund Program. In 2011, Bill wrote the submission to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for the City of Austin to receive a USPTO Satellite Office, which assisted in Texas’ successful selection for the new U.S. Patent Office in Dallas, Texas.For the internationally recognized Idea to Product (I2P®) Global Competition, which was started at the University of Texas at Austin, he has served as a finalist judge for competitions at University of Lisbon, Portugal [2010], the Royal Technical University of Stockholm, Sweden [2011 & 2012] and Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora of Sao Paolo, Brazil [2013 & 2014]. Presently, Mr. Hulsey serves as an adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University’s Bill Munday School of Business teaching Digital Media Law to M.B.A. students.William Hulsey has successfully completed graduate level training and education in engineering as a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and submarine officer, economics through a M.A. in Economics from The University of Virginia and continuing Ph.D. studies at the University of North Texas, and law through a J.D. from The Vanderbilt School of Law. As an Attorney, is the founder of HULSEY PC and practices in Austin, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Hulsey was a commissioned Naval Officer, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Force. Bill served first as a member of the USS Jacksonville (SSN699) nuclear submarine pre-commissioning and initial sea trials crew and then later as an Engineering Duty Officer, completing his naval service as Commanding Officer of an engineering unit supporting Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. While in graduate school, Bill worked as a Scientific & Technical Intelligence Analyst for the United States Army’s Foreign Science & Technology Center in Charlottesville, Virginia and the Army’s Electronics Research & Development Command in Adelphi, Maryland. From this and other work, he frequently has assisted clients in scientific matters before the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and contractors to these federal agencies.Mr. Hulsey holds a J.D. from the Vanderbilt School of Law where he was Senior Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif; a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Virginia focusing on technology industry economic development; and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Rhodes College, where he graduated With Distinction.