Expert's Biography

Hynes
Hynes

Bill Hynes , Esq.
Of Counsel Mechanical Practice Group San Francisco

Professional Experience:
Mr. Hynes has practiced in San Francisco in the patent law area and currently specializes in patent prosecution. His practice covers all phases of mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, optics and general Internet protocol patents. He was a deputy district attorney for Alameda County and for the first 15 years of his patent practice was active in litigation.

Education:
LL.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1963 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1957

Representative Clients:
Current concentrated efforts include the origination and prosecution of patents related to laser capture microdissection for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Additionally, he is working as Intellectual Property Counsel to numerous Bay Area entities including Dantz Development Co (Backup Software), Guntert and Zimmerman Const. Div. Inc (Heavy Paving Equipment), and Robert DeMatteis of Grass Valley, California (Bag systems). Mr. Hynes has worked in physics and optics for over 30 years, representing for over 20 years the late Luis W. Alvarez (1968 Nobel Prize; 1978 Inventors Hall of Fame).

CONTACT
Mechanical Practice Group
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Two Embarcadero Center
Eighth Floor
San Francisco, California 94111-3834
tel: 415-576-0200
fax: 415-576-0300
email: wmhynes @ townsend.com

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