James A. Poulos

Mr. Poulos is a registered patent attorney.
His career in patent law began in 1980 as a self-employed patent researcher.
From 1991-1998 Mr. Poulos was responsible for the US patent portfolio of the multi-national company Zambon Group S.p.A.
(Zambon).
Mr. Poulos joined the University of Maryland’s Office of Technology Liaison (OTL) in March 1998 as the Associate Director for technology management.
Mr. Poulos served as the Acting Executive Director of OTL from June 1999 to June 2000.
After a national search, Mr. Poulos was named the Executive Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland, College Park in June of 2000.
Since joining the office, Mr. Poulos has negotiated over 200 license agreements with commercial entities both within and without the state of Maryland.
During his tenure over 30 University spin-off companies have been created, including Quantum Photonics (College Park, MD), Little Optics (Columbia, MD) and RioRey, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland).
These three companies have received over 85 million dollars in combined venture capital funding.
Mr. Poulos received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from The University of Maryland, College Park, 1979.
Mr. Poulos studied law for one year at Loyola School of Law in New Orleans and Graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1984.
He has taken graduate courses in the fields of patent law (George Washington University) and molecular biology (University of Maryland, College Park) and life sciences.
He was an adjunct faculty member of the University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business in 1994-1995 rendering expertise as a patent attorney to the Lab-to-Market curriculum created at the University of Baltimore.