James R. Zanewicz, J.D., LL.M., started the Office of Technology Development at the University of Louisville in December of 2000, and guided the office's development and growth into the Office of Technology Transfer.  His is originally from Kentucky, where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Centre College.  On his winding path around the U.S. and back to the Bluegrass State, he has lived in:  New Orleans where he earned his J.D. from Tulane Law School, New Jersey while he was working as a chemist and a patent law clerk for Rhone-Poulenc, Los Angeles where he handled internet, multimedia, production and intellectual property issues for the Warner Bros. daily syndicated news-magazine EXTRA, and Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, where he first entered the exciting realm of University Technology Transfer and learned much of what he knows from Ann Hammersla and Jill Tarzian Sorensen.

James is admitted to practice before both the Kentucky Bar and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and authored a thesis on "Online Data Privacy in the United States:  Analysis and Proposed Regulatory Scheme" as part of earning his LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Media Issues from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He co-chairs the Technology Transfer Committee for BIO, is a steering committee member of OVALS (The Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences), has served on several AUTM committees, and is an active memeber of COGR.  His proudest achievement is his involvement as a disaster services volunteer for the American Red Cross.

"The public values the invention more than the inventor does.  The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from."  Ralph Waldo Emerson