Jeffrey E. Depp 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) and Principal at Hillcrest Intellectual Property Services. 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 work on his scholarship. Jeff is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). His dissertation is entitled “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of American Innovation: An Austrian Economics Perspective.” He also maintains an active, transactions-focused intellectual property law practice counseling clients on technology assessment, intellectual property protection and litigation, licensing and business
- JD Intellectual Property & Tax Law, Duquesne University
- MS Industrial Administration (MBA), Carnegie Mellon University
- BS Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Education & Training
- Public policy analysis
- Political economy and international trade
- Intellectual property and competition policy
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Administrative governance
- Nonprofit law and governance
