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Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist
Founder and Team Leader of Patent Matchmaker

 Jackie Hutter, MS, JD is a self-described "Recovering Patent Attorney" who now counts herself as one of the pioneering ranks of Intellectual Property ("IP") Strategists.  As an IP Strategist, Jackie is also Founder and Principal of The Hutter Group LLC, a leading provider of IP business and investment consulting services to forward-thinking organizations that seek to maximize firm IP value.  She has over 14 years experience counseling corporations, universities, entrepreneurs and investment professionals in all facets of IP protection. 
In June 2009, Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, the leading publication of strategic IP management, recognized Jackie as one of world's leading IP Strategists. She was also recently featured in a Business Week "Game Changing" management ideas series.  In addition, Jackie was named a SuperLawyer® in IP in Georgia in 2004 (her last year in private law practice), and she is a frequent speaker on IP strategy to business and legal professionals.  Prior to founding The Hutter Group and Patent Matchmaker, Jackie was Senior Patent Counsel to Georgia-Pacific LLC, where she had sole responsible for Dixie® patent matters and, later, the company's Chemicals business. Before joining Georgia-Pacific, Jackie was a shareholder at the prestigious IP firm of Needle & Rosenberg, PC (now Ballard & Spahr).  Jackie earned an M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent several years as practicing chemist at Helene Curtis (now Unilever).  

Jackie lives in Decatur, Georgia, in a groovy mid-Century modern house with her husband, 2 daughters and far too many pets.