Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist – The Hutter Group LLC: IP Business Strategy

Practice/Organization Description

Jackie Hutter is Principal of The Hutter Group, a leading provider of IP ("Intellectual Property") business counseling and competitive analytics to forward-thinking organizations that seek to maximize firm asset value by capitallizing on the power of intellectual property. She has over 14 years experience counseling innovation-driven companies, universities and business development and investment professionals in maximizing their firm intellectual asset value. Jackie was named a SuperLawyer(R) in Intellectual Property in Georgia in 2004, and she has been a frequent speaker on IP issues to her fellow lawyers. Jackie was formerly Senior Patent Counsel at a Georgia-Pacific LLC, where she had sole responsible for Dixie(R) patent matters and, later, the company's Chemicals business. Prior to joining Georgia-Pacific, Jackie was a shareholder at the prestigious IP firm of Needle & Rosenberg, PC (now Ballard & Spahr), where she represented mulit-national companies, universities and innovators in protecting their IP to create maximum asset value. Jackie has also been a patent and IP litigator, which gives her a unique perspective in how to maximize firm IP value by avoiding litigation. Prior to attending law school on a full academic scholarship and where she graduated with honors, Jackie obtained her M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent several years as practicing chemist at Helene Curtis (now Unilever). She is a named inventor on one U.S. patent. Jackie lives in Decatur, Georgia, in a groovy mid-Century modern house with her husband, 2 daughters and several pets.

Bar Admissions

Georgia

US Patent Office

Northern District of Georgia

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Georgia Court of Appeals

Education

The John Marshall Law School (Chicago) JD, 1996

University of Cincinnati, MS, 1990

Barry University, BS, 1987

Professional Associations & Memberships

Georgia Association of Women Lawyers

Honors and Awards

SuperLawyer(r) in Intellectual Property in Georgia, 2004

Vice Chair, Georgia State University Corporate IP Roundtable, 2008

Law Review Editor

Scribe's Award (best law review note)

Order of John Marshall

Full tuition law school scholarship

Areas of Practice

• Business Development
• Intellectual Property
• Legal Marketing
• Training & Education