Meet The Team
PatentBooks Management Team
Art Nutter
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Nutter is the inventor, founder, and chairman of PatentBooks, Inc. He is a strategic tenacious visionary that likes to create and lead. Mr. Nutter is listed by The IP Media Group as one of Intellectual Asset Management’s “World’s Leading IP Strategists” since the publication began in 2009.
Mr. Nutter founded TAEUS in 1992 as the world’s first engineering company dedicated exclusively to managing and monetizing intellectual property. TAEUS was bootstrapped from its humble beginnings in Colorado Springs, Colorado to a global enterprise now incorporated in the US, UK, Japan, and Malaysia. TAEUS determines which of the patents in its client’s portfolios are the most valuable and proves their value via proprietary forensic engineering and accounting processes. Some of these processes have been released to the public to further enable more efficient patent licensing around the world. TAEUSworks™, the process long considered the “Gold Standard of patent evaluation,” and referred to as “the Moody’s of intellectual property” by the Wall Street Journal, was created by Mr. Nutter. The Global Patent Syndicate™ and PatentBooks both significantly improve global patent licensing efficiencies.
Mr. Nutter has been a member of the Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada since 1994, was head of the LES High Tech Industry Sector for 7 years, was Trustee of the LES USA & Canada for 7 years, was a Delegate from the US to the Licensing Executives Society International for 15 years, and was head of the LESI Communications committee for 3 years. Mr. Nutter challenges the patent licensing industry from the podium regularly at global events and is widely published. Mr. Nutter holds a BSME from the University of Akron (Ohio), an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP). He is Catholic, an instrument-rated pilot, rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle, is a certified SCUBA diver, directs music, sings in choirs and bands, and is married to Katheleen, with whom is blessed with eight children and seven grandchildren (to date).
Massimo DeVellis
CPA - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. DeVellis has more than 28 years of accounting and equity finance experience with sixteen years in senior financial and operational management roles.
In addition to his background in accounting, he worked as a Specialist Trading Clerk on the floor of the NYSE as well as a NYSE Block Trader for an Institutional Broker Dealer.
He ascended to C-Suite leadership positions in the hedge fund industry, first with Equinox Partners LP, and then with Granger Management LLC, where his advanced finance and accounting skills were the foundation for many financial decisions, infrastructure development along with precise reporting, and on-point industry compliance. His corporate responsibilities have included positions as a CFO, COO, and CCO.
Mr. DeVellis has a broad and deep understanding of best practices in corporate accounting and the integrity of financial reporting. He uses his expertise to guide accounting practices and positively impact a wide variety of financial decisions, inclusive of tax implications, fee structures, operating budgets, compliance matters, and technology decisions.
Excelling in forward-thinking approaches, he is quick to see issues and opportunities on a business’s horizon and advise on strategies that enhance the bottom line. As an organization’s financial function is integrally tied to all of its operations, Mr. DeVellis takes a cohesive approach to business advisory, which can include acting as a change agent.
Pete Rome
Chief Organizational Effectiveness Officer, and Sales
Mr. Rome is a business consultant with two decades of experience working with Fortune 500 and other major companies. He was recently the President of 3P Business Solutions, a management-consulting firm, prior to his executive sales leadership role at PatentBooks, Inc.
Peter brings specialized competencies in areas of sales, marketing, business development, customer service, meetings, incentives, operations and behavioral sciences, and has consulted with leaders to help them think broadly about change strategies that affect their competitive markets. He coached individuals and teams to deliver tools to improve performance and measurement. His creative solutions for building partnerships across organizational boundaries have inspired people to achieve business results.
Peter has held positions of Training Director, Executive Consultant, Vice President of Sales, Entrepreneur and Independent Business Owner. He has completed projects for General Electric, Goodyear, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Ford Motor Company, DuPont, Focus: HOPE, Chrysler, International Association of Conference Centers, University of Michigan and General Motors.
At the Ford Fairlane Training and Development Center, Peter was responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the customer service department. This department was accountable for Participant Registration, Room Registration, Instructor Scheduling, Accounts Payables/Receivables, Training Histories, Management Reports, and Coordination of Food and Beverage. Peter also developed and managed the Event Planning Department at the Ford Training Center. Event Planning managed all internal Ford meetings and external sales. The Ford facility is a 300,000 square foot property that services 1000 to 1300 people a day.
At Eli Lilly, Peter consolidated over 60 training functions to establish a centralized training administration support group. This turnkey operation developed best practices to deliver all corporate and global training initiatives.
Focus: HOPE is a standalone conference center where Peter developed all of the sales and marketing operations to drive external sales. The center is experiencing a positive net profit after several years of operating at a deficit.
Will Stone
Marketing/ US Government Affairs
Mr. Stone has 30 years of distinctive experience in the public and private sectors, with highlights as the Chief Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff to Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) for nine years and also served as the Director of Financial Services for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. As a longtime lobbyist and political activist, he is an expert on the inner workings of Congress, working on defense, appropriations, health care, information technology, energy, telecommunications, agriculture, environmental, child exploitation, campaign finance reform, and other issues.
Mr. Stone serves on the boards of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service at the University of Wisconsin and the National Association to Protect Children.
Mr. Stone has served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University and has lectured at American University, Georgetown University, Michigan State University, the University of Maryland, and other higher education institutions. He earned a bachelor’s degree at American University in Washington, majoring in communications, law, economics, and government.
Mr. Stone is active in his community — including scouting, sports, and other activities — and currently resides in the District of Columbia with his wife Anne; he has two children in college.
Larry Hadley
General Counsel
Mr. Hadley has more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer in high-stakes intellectual property and commercial litigation, including patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. Mr. Hadley’s background as a commercial ship and naval officer, and as a licensed pilot, give him a unique perspective in developing persuasive case themes involving complex technology and presenting them in a clear and compelling manner to courts and juries. He has litigated cases involving a wide variety of technology, including computer software and hardware, integrated circuit and processor design, wireless communications, medical devices, internet communications, compression, and storage. He also has tried cases involving material sciences and plant patents.
Mr. Hadley is admitted to practice in all California state and federal courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has appeared in courts across the country and has practiced before administrative bodies, including the International Trade Commission. Mr. Hadley has served as lead litigation counsel in more than a dozen trial and appellate matters and his extensive appellate experience includes more than 8 federal appellate arguments.
Mr. Hadley is a frequent commentator on legal matters involving technology. He also served as a settlement officer in the Los Angeles Superior Court Voluntary Settlement Program and is ranked in the Best Lawyers in America as a leading lawyer in Patent Litigation.
Peter Chrocziel
Licensing Expert
PatentBooks Board of Advisors
Chuck Neuenschwander
49 years of business experience in the licensing, electronics and chemical industries. The past 25 years managing and supporting client patent license negotiations and litigations for International Patent Licensing Company, Patent Solutions (both of which he co-founded), Mahr Leonard Management Company and STMicroelectronics. Personally, or through organizations he has led, Mr. Neuenschwander completed more than 65 IP transactions generating in excess of US$260 million direct cash return for clients.BS Business and Mathematics, Bowling Green State University, 1965; MBA, Indiana University, 1967.
Tom Filarski
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, Intellectual Property Litigation group. 20 years of experience in patent, Hatch-Waxman, and International Trade Commission matters. Regularly appears in federal district courts throughout the USand the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. "Highly Recommended" as a Leading Life Sciences Patent Litigator by Intellectual Asset Management magazine (2010-2011), featured in the Business Edition of Leading Lawyers Network magazine in January 2009. Authored"Patent Defenses" in BNA Books' Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook (2005). President of the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada). MSChemE, Michigan Tech University, 1980; MBA, Loyola University, 1982; J.D. Law, DePaul University, 1986.
Brian Hinman
Chief Innovation Officer, Aon. Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Philips 2013-2017. Co-Founder & COO, Unified Patents, Inc. 2012-2013. VP, Intellectual Property and Licensing, InterDigital Communications 2011-2012. VP, Intellectual Property and Licensing, Verizon, 2008-2010. CEO, Allied Security Trust, 2007-2008. VP, Intellectual Property and Licensing, IBM 1996-2007. Director, Licensing, Westinghouse, 1992-1996. University of Pittsburgh 1982. MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1992.
Margaret (Peggy) Moizel
Ms. Moizel is an established expert in licensing and royalty auditing, with more than 30 years of experience serving the license compliance needs of companies and Universities. She provides her services in a wide variety of industries such as merchandising, pharmaceutical, chemicals, telecommunications, software, computer hardware, various technologies, and entertainment. She has conducted over 900 domestic and international royalty audits with an emphasis on Asian licensing agreements, to identify unreported or understated revenues and assist in their recovery. In addition to her royalty auditing expertise, Ms. Moizel assists companies in the implementation of procedures and controls for the financial management of intellectual property. She also provides consulting services to licensees with an emphasis on procedures and controls for payment of royalties. Ms. Moizel supports attorneys in drafting royalty agreements and provides expert witness testimony for royalty-related litigation as well as due diligence analysis.
Prior to founding IP Compliance Management in the year 2000, Ms. Moizel was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche where she founded their Revenue Recovery and Licensing Management practices. She spent 14 years with other accounting firms where she specialized in licensing and royalties. She began her royalty career in the music industry at United Artist Records and was Director of Royalties for Motown Records and Jobete Music Publishing. Ms. Moizel is involved with Relevant Professional International Intellectual Property Society – Member, Association of University Technology Managers – Member, Licensing Executives Society -Vice President, International Delegate, and Licensing Instructor.
Vernon Anthony
PatentBooks Board of Directors
Michael Lechter
Mr. Lechter, is an attorney, a certified licensing professional (CLP), an electrical engineer, and a bestselling author. Among other things, he is CEO of TechPress Inc., a publishing and literary agency company, CEO of Michael Lechter PC, law practice, and was an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University (ASU).
He has taught entrepreneurship for more than a decade. He is also the owner of the Tilting H Ranch/ Cherry Creek Lodge which is a working cattle ranch and guest ranch, featuring, among other things, equestrian and shooting activities set in the heart of the Tonto National Forest.
Mr. Lechter’s service mark – Building Forts and Fighting Pirates®, suggests the nature of his 40+year career in Intellectual Property. He not only built the IP sections at a number of national and international law firms, but also represented clients ranging from breweries, fast food companies, casinos, professional sports teams, publishing companies and authors, to major software companies, and semiconductor and medical device manufacturers. His extensive work includes: from startups, to venture capitalists, and to Fortune 100 companies.
Mr. Lechter has been the architect of strategies for building businesses; using both conventional and unconventional forms and sources of “Other People’s Money and Resources.” His experience in representing both venture capitalists and start-up and emerging businesses, as well as, his own experience as an angel investor, provides a unique perspective to the subject of building a business.
Mr. Lechter has served on the TAEUS International Corporation Board of Directors 2006-2011, and PatentBooks Inc. Board of Directors from 2018.
He has lectured extensively throughout the world on intellectual property law and entrepreneurship. Upon request of the House Judiciary Committee, he has submitted testimony to the Congress of the United States and has participated in various United Nations and foreign government proceedings on intellectual property law and technology transfer.
Marty McCarty
Mr. McCarty is the son of a career U.S. Army Officer, born in Honolulu, Hawaii at Tripler ArmyHospital. In keeping with the life of a military family, he and his siblings followed his father in moving to five different assignment locations prior to his high school graduation. He has experienced the lifestyle of America’s MilitaryTeenagers, a group he now serves as a Young Life VicePresident, Military Ministry, and as the Military CommunityYouth Ministries Executive Director.
Mr. McCarty graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and invested twenty years as a successful restaurateur and business owner in California. During this time, he and his wife Liz were volunteers with the Young Life staff in Oakland, and later Danville, California. In 1998, returning to their military roots, Mr. and Mrs. McCarty joined the Young Life staff and moved to Germany. He and Liz have two adult children, Josh (age 27) and Sarah (age 25), who are exceptional young people of their own right. They are both college graduates in pursuit of their dreams. The family is now enjoying twenty years of service to Young Life Military-Club Beyond and currently resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mr. McCarty has served on the TAEUS Corporation Board of Directors from 2011 - 2018, PatentBooks Inc. Board of Directors from 2013-2018, and TAEUS Holdings Inc. Board of Directors from 2014 - 2018.
Katheleen Nutter
Mrs. Nutter has been involved with TAEUS Corporation since its inception in 1992. She has worked in various management and leadership roles throughout her career. She has experience in management, desktop publishing, invoicing, reviewing contracts, negotiating with clients and vendors, and served as a board member since 1992.
Mrs. Nutter has provided insight and direction in both TAEUS and PatentBooks Inc. She has served on TAEUS Corporation Board of Directors from 2014-2018 (Treasurer), TAEUS International Corporation Board of Directors 1992-2014 (Treasurer), PatentBooks Inc. Board of Directors 2013-2018 (Treasurer), and TAEUS Holdings Inc. Board of Directors 2014-2018 (Treasurer). She has also served on two other Board of Directors: Legatus - Colorado Springs (Program Director), and Cursillo - Colorado Springs (Treasurer).
Prior to her work with TAEUS Corporation and PatentBooks Inc., Mrs. Nutter’s coursework includes Business Administration at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Regis University, upon completion, achieved a 4.0 GPA.
Mrs. Nutter has been involved in many non-profit organizations, including Treasurer of Cursillo, and a volunteer planner with Licensing Executive Society for annual and seasonal/regional meetings. Mrs. Nutter has also served on the advisory selection board in a nationwide search for a principal, served as a coordinator of local Legatus meetings, and she volunteers in her church and local schools.
Art Nutter
Mr. Nutter is the inventor, founder, and chairman of PatentBooks Inc. He is a strategic tenacious visionary that likes to create and lead. Art is listed by The IP Media Group as one of Intellectual Asset Management’s “World’s Leading IP Strategists” since the publication began in 2009. He founded TAEUS in 1992 as the world’s first engineering company dedicated exclusively to managing and monetizing intellectual property. TAEUS was bootstrapped from its humble beginnings in Colorado Springs, Colorado to a global enterprise now incorporated in the US, UK, Japan, and Malaysia. TAEUS determines which of the patents in its client’s portfolios are the most valuable and proves their value via proprietary forensic engineering and accounting processes. Some of these processes have been released to the public to further enable more efficient patent licensing around the world. TAEUSworks™, the process long considered the “Gold Standard” of patent evaluation and referred to as “the Moody’s of intellectual property” by the Wall Street Journal, was created by Mr. Nutter. The Global Patent Syndicate™ and PatentBooks Inc. both significantly improve global patent licensing efficiencies.
Mr. Nutter has been a member of the Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada since 1994, was head of the LES High-Tech Industry Sector for 7 years, was Trustee of the LES USA & Canada for 7 years, was a Delegate from the US to the Licensing Executives Society International for 15 years and was head of the LESI Communications committee for 3 years. Mr. Nutter challenges the patent licensing industry from the podium regularly at global events and is widely published. Mr. Nutter holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Akron, Ohio; a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, and is a Certified Licensing Professional. He is Catholic, an instrument-rated pilot, rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle, is a certified SCUBA diver, directs music, sings in choirs and bands, and is married to Katheleen, with whom is blessed with eight children and seven grandchildren (to date).
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