Invention Convention

Donald R. Boys

President of Central Coast Patent Agency, a full-service Patent Law firm operating on the California Central Coast for twenty-five years, and specializing in rapidly creating patent portfolios for start-up companies and patents for established companies and for independent inventors.  He is a member of the Federal Patent Bar and is a Professional Mechanical Engineer. 

Don graduated from Purdue University in Indiana in 1962 with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, worked in Aerospace Engineering at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in Hartford CT., was with General Motors from 1963 to 1976 developing robotic and automatic processing equipment, developed automated vacuum systems and magnetically-enhanced sputtering equipment for Varian Associates for seven years, founded Iodep Engineering, which merged with Genus, Inc. to develop one of the first cluster tools, and then moved into the Intellectual property world in 1988.

Don is a poetry hobbyist, enjoys reading and memorizing poetry, and is a sometimes musician.