Jeff’s clients turn to him for help in protecting intellectual property assets, including patents, trademarks and copyrights, as well as for strategic counsel on all aspects of intellectual property licensing.
Jeff serves as lead licensing counsel for a diverse group of companies ranging from large biotech concerns and new technology start-ups to software, agribusiness, and midsize manufacturing companies.
An experienced lawyer with a background in molecular biology, Jeff has an in-depth understanding of the complex technologies behind his clients’ IP assets. Clients benefit from Jeff’s extensive experience in negotiating and drafting a full range of intellectual property and software licensing agreements, joint development and collaborative and sponsored research agreements; and material and university transfer agreements.
A respected IP thought leader, Jeff has recently spoken and written about timely topics such as IP security interests to key considerations in drafting IP license agreements for technology.