Jeff is a registered patent attorney and an innovation, competition, and entrepreneurship policy professional with a unique combination of formal training and extensive real-world experience. He is Senior Counsel, Law & Policy at the Committee for Justice (CFJ) and the Executive Director of the Center for Innovation, Competition & Entrepreneurship Policy (Center ICE Policy).
While serving in his roles at CFJ and Center ICE Policy, lending his voice to the important innovation and competition policy issues of our day, he continues to work on his scholarship. Jeff is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA). His dissertation is entitled “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of American Innovation: An Austrian Economics Perspective.”
He also maintains an active intellectual property law practice in counseling clients on technology assessment, intellectual property protection and litigation, licensing and business development, and the impact current intellectual property and innovation policies will have on their plans and objectives.
Jeff serves as a member of the Public Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC) for the Association of University of Technology Managers (AUTM). He is also a former Chair of its Public Policy Legal Task Force (PPLTF).
Prior to CFJ and Center ICE Policy, Jeff spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, several years in university technology transfer, as well as some time at a major D.C.-based trade organization, a national security think tank, and working in the chambers of a federal district court judge focused on IP litigation cases. He was also an Edison Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in chemical and biomedical engineering with concentrations in molecular biology and fermentation technology from Carnegie Mellon. He also has a master’s degree in industrial administration (business) from Carnegie Mellon, where he concentrated on international management, marketing, and finance. He earned his law degree from the Duquesne University School of Law with a focus on intellectual property law.
