Who is Protective Intellectual Property Services, LLC?
Protective Intellectual Property Services, LLC was founded to help small to medium-sized idea-based companies who do not need, or cannot otherwise justify, a full-time Intellectual Property Manager.
Lanny Feder, Managing Partner, has decades of industrial experience in protecting intellectual property, technology transfer, industrial liaison, obtaining funding for and performing research and development, technology marketing, technology management and process engineering. Lanny has interacted effectively with researchers, inventors, technologists, attorneys, government agencies and business people on the applications and benefits of innovative technologies.Prior to forming Protective Intellectual Property Services, LLC, Lanny was Director, Engineering Intellectual Property in the Office of Technology Management at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was responsible for evaluating, protecting, performing patent and business analyses, marketing, licensing and managing the licenses for the innovative technologies developed in the University’s College of Engineering. (Please click here for an article that describes Lanny's activities in the College of Engineering1).
Lanny received his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering Practice from the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his Bachelor’s Degree with High Honor in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, under the Cooperative Education Program.1. Engineering News, Spring, 2002, publication of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. Published with permission of the copyright holder. Photography by Dale DeBolt Photography.