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Paul B. Heynssens is a registered patent attorney (47,648), and counsels clients in a variety of intellectual property and technology matters including patent prosecution (US, PCT, and foreign), and portfolio management.  He has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the areas of electronics, computer systems, computers, software, semiconductors, lasers, and mechanical devices, among others.

Mr. Heynssens has experience as an in house patent attorney with Microsoft’s Redmond campus.  At Microsoft, Mr. Heynssens helped establish a new patent prosecution group and chaired its training committee.  He has firm experience at the patent boutique firm of Christie Parker & Hale, where he was responsible for portfolio development for various clients, ranging from startups to multinationals.  He also has experience with large general practice firms, having worked at the Los Angeles office of the international law firm Hogan Lovells.

Before practicing law, Mr. Heynssens was an experienced electronic design engineer.  At Motorola, he designed cellular telephone base station equipment, and was an RF design task leader in the development of microwave, UHF and VHF radio transmitters and receivers for military applications.  While at Raytheon he designed circuits for communications equipment for the MILSTAR satellite communications program, and also designed high rate computer controlled test equipment for microwave and RF circuits.

Professional Experience

• Ater Wynne LLP, Seattle, Washington, Of Counsel, 2014 to present
• Paul B. Heynssens, Attorney at Law PLC, Woodinville, WA and Phoenix, AZ, 2010 to present
• Jennings, Strouss & Salmon PLC, Phoenix, Arizona, 2006 to 2010
• Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, Senior Attorney, 2004 to 2006
• Hogan & Hartson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, 2001 to 2004
• Christie, Parker & Hale LLP, Pasadena, CA, 1998 to 2001

Education

• Arizona State University, J.D. and M.B.A., May 1998
• Purdue University, Deans List, B.S.E.E., May 1981