Jeffrey E. Depp

Jeff is a registered patent attorney and an intellectual property and innovation policy professional with a unique combination of training and real-world experience.  Jeff is also 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.”

Jeff maintains an active intellectual property law practice in the life sciences space. While counseling clients and working on his dissertation and other scholarship, Jeff remains active in the policy analysis and advocacy space.  He currently serves as the President of the Association for American Innovation and a member and former Chair of the Public Policy Legal Task Force (PPLTF) for the Association of University of Technology Managers (AUTM).

Jeff has a bachelor’s degree chemical and biomedical engineering with concentrations in molecular biology and fermentation technology and 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.