Don Kelly is a Senior Consultant with the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI). In this role, Don has helped plan and execute a number of IIPI projects and activities.

Don Kelly is chief executive of Intellectual Asset Management Associates, LLC, an IP consultancy and patent law practice based in Alexandria, VA. Prior to establishing IAMA in 2002, Kelly served as CEO of the prestigious Academy of Applied Science, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1963 with a mission to foster innovation and establish a global forum for exploration of educational, scientific and legal issues. For many years prior to joining the Academy, Donald was a longtime senior executive with the US Patent & Trademark Office where he directed patent examining divisions and served as USPTO chief of staff. He established the USPTO's innovative Office of Independent Inventor Programs, and the award-winning national classroom initiative, Project XL.

As adjunct professor, Don Kelly taught patent law at Franklin Pierce Law Center in 2001. Currently, he is visiting lecturer at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and serves on the workshop faculty of Mohawk Research, Inc. He has served two terms as a standing committee chair for the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Organization, and for three years on the faculty for Licensing Executives Society (LES) professional development programs.

Through his frequent lectures and published articles on American innovation, Don Kelly has gained a national reputation as champion of inventors and entrepreneurs. For 2006-2007 he has been elected to serve as President of the United Inventors Association of the USA. Don’s remarkable IP career carries him into international arenas, as well, lecturing in the Middle East for the International Intellectual Property Institute, presenting to Shanghai businessmen on behalf of the Asian Pacific Legal Institute, speaking in the Far East for the World Intellectual Property Organization and across Europe as a faculty member for the NATO Lecture Series. He was appointed to serve with the President's negotiation team to the GATT's Tokyo Round. As the US marketing director for the major British Publishing House, Pergamon Press, Ltd., Kelly introduced America's intellectual property law community to the first comprehensive, electronic patent search and retrieval system.

Kelly currently serves on the advisory board of the ByKidsForKids Co. and the Yankee Invention Exposition, Inc., and on the board of directors of Patent Cafe, Inc. Internet-based magazine IP-Frontline e-Magazine carries his entrepreneur-focused column, "Out to Launch" and HumanTech, Inc. recently engaged him as expert consultant for a US Government contract to assist USPTO in development of a Strategic Human Capital Plan. Kelly studied Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech where he received a BS-ME.