Lin J. Hymel

Lin is an intellectual property attorney with extensive experience prosecuting patents and assisting clients in several technical areas, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, and advanced materials. His additional focuses include medical diagnostics, immunotherapeutics, drug formulation and delivery, nanotechnology, sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), ultrasound, microfluidics, microscopy, chromatography, and industrial chemical and biochemical processes. For a broad range of clients internationally, including universities, early-stage companies, and large international corporations, Lin is dedicated to offering efficient and insightful patent due diligence, drafting, prosecution, and post-grant proceedings.

As a patent lawyer, Lin has more than 20 years of experience working at law firms in the Boston and Washington, D.C. areas and has served as an in-house patent attorney at a major biotechnology company. He has issued opinions on patent invalidity and non-infringement, performed prior art searches, negotiated and drafted licenses and agreements, assisted with pre-litigation counseling, and managed entire patent prosecution dockets.

Lin’s international experience includes prosecution of patent applications in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, China, India, Brazil, and Mexico, including directing outside counsel and foreign associates. 

Following receipt of his Ph.D., Lin pursued an academic career. As an Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology, Lin performed research and taught parts of Medical Physiology and graduate courses in General and Cell Physiology, Electrophysiology, Pharmacology, and Advanced Cellular & Molecular Biology. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Linz, Institute for Biophysics in Austria, Lin performed research and independently taught an undergraduate course in Cellular and Molecular Biology (in German). As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ulm, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology in Germany, Lin performed research duties and independently taught (in German) laboratory exercises in Pharmacology.

Lin has also served in grant review as a Scientific Review Administrator at the National Institutes of Health. Here, Lin nationally recruited expert reviewers from the scientific community for research grants in all biomedical areas, including molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and biomedical engineering.