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ATLANTA, GA - June 11, 2009 - Slingshot Product Development is pleased to announce Intellectual Property Strategist, Jackie Hutter MS, JD, as a guest contributor to their recently launched innovation blog. www.slingshotpdg.com/blog. Ms. Hutter was recently named one of the Top 250 Global IP Strategists by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine. Beginning in June 2009, Jackie will add her expertise as a world class IP strategist to Slingshot PDG's blog providing insight to maximize asset value as it relates to patents and intellectual property.
"Her incredible background gives our clients a visibility on the patent landscape that has not been available before and is unique to our firm," adds Slingshot PDG Start-up Division Director, Don Muntner. "She fills a niche within our process of growing revenue through innovation with her knowledge of patent strength and her ability to provide a level of security."
Jackie Hutter is founder of The Hutter Group and Patent Matchmaker with over 15 years experience advising innovation-driven corporations, investors and universities on how to maximize intangible asset value. She was recently featured in a Business Week "Game Changing" management ideas series. While a shareholder at the Prestigious IP firm of Needle & Rosenberg, PC (now Ballard & Spahr), Jackie was named a SuperLawyer™ in IP in Georgia in 2004 and is a frequent speaker on IP strategy to business and legal professionals.
Intellectual Asset Management is a publication that reports on intellectual property as a business asset and part of The IP Media Group. The magazine's primary focus is on looking at how IP can be best managed and exploited in order to increase company profits, drive shareholder value and obtain increased leverage in the capital markets.
Slingshot Product Development Group is one of the nation's leading vertically integrated product design, manufacturing, and commercialization firms. Their product development expertise in medical devices, consumer products, ruggedized packaging, and productizing technology translates into successful innovation creating revolutionary new products that drive demand in today's market. Since inception in 2001, Slingshot PDG has cultivated strategic partnerships to convert innovation opportunities into revenue for their clients. Slingshot PDG is headquarted in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, please visit www.SlingshotPDG.com and www.jackiehutter.com.
For Press Inquiries contact: Noah McNeely, President noahm@slingshotpdg.com 678-522-3310
Slingshot is one of the Southeast's leading product design and development organizations. The company's development teams utilize unique and proven strategies to rapidly launch products for clients in a variety of industries, including consumer products, medical, electronics, military/security, automotive, aerospace, toys, and other categories. Slingshot has developed products with dozens of corporate clients including The Coca-Cola Company, Plantronics, Conair, Kimberly Clark, CharBroil and Lockheed, as well as with innovation-based start-ups.
The company offers a full range of product development services including ideation, conceptual design, prototyping, engineering, design for manufacture, packaging and program management. Additionally, sourcing and manufacturer coordination services are offered through Slingshot's Asia office near Shanghai, China.
Slingshot Product Development Group was founded in 2001 by Sam Zaidspiner, President; George Hatzilias, Vice President of Engineering; and Noah McNeely, Vice President of Design.
