Greater Pittsburgh Allergy Asthma & Immunology Society

Jeffrey E. Depp, JD, MSIA (MBA)

Jeff is a registered patent attorney and an intellectual property and innovation policy professional with a unique combination of formal training and real-world experience.  Jeff is the President of the Association for American Innovation, an organization dedicated to implementing an America first innovation policy that maximizes U.S. technological advancement, competition and consumer welfare. Jeff is also currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA).

While serving on the board of GPAAIS and as President of the Association for American Innovation (AAI), Jeff continues work on his scholarship.  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 the life sciences space counseling clients on technology assessment, intellectual property protection, licensing and business development, and the impact current intellectual property and innovation policies will have on their plans and objectives.

Jeff also serves as a member of the Public Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC) for the Association of University of Technology Managers (AUTM).  He is also a member and former Chair of its Public Policy Legal Task Force (PPLTF).

Prior to leading the Association for American Innovation, Jeff spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, several years in university technology transfer, as well as some time at a major life sciences 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 formerly 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 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.