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The core team at PE LLC is lead by David C. Schwartz. We work with regional experts in IP around the country to promote the more effective capture and formulation of IP assets.

David C. Schwartz is the technical founder and chairman of the board of Productive Education LLC. Prior to PE LLC, he founded Productive Environments in 1989 where he was responsible for establishing the BinderBuddies portfolio of 27 patents. As head of product development, distribution, and licensing he secured 20 license agreements, generating over $40 million dollars of royalty bearing sales.

He authored the book: Growing Smarter-a crash course on the intelligence of being organized, and developed the Organizing Engineers Preparatory Curriculum for vocational and college freshmen students and teachers. His interest is in the development of improved engineering education programs and in the formation of IP centric companies capable of developing robust patent portfolios that can be commercially licensed through strategic partnerships.

Mr. Schwartzs IP work spans a period of 20 years. He is best known for his work developing and marketing consumer products in hard goods, software, and gaming. In this pursuit he invented, prototyped, prepared and filed world wide patent applications. He was able to secure over 250 issued and non-infringed claims. He has patented mechanical, electro-mechanical, and complex software systems. His field of invention includes applications in consumer learning products, infectious disease control software, collaborative enterprise platforms, innovative mobile robotic apparatus, and reading tutors for instructional learning. Based on this work, he developed --IP BOOTCAMP-Lessons in how to start an IP Centric Company-- a workshop designed specifically for inventive founders of technology based companies which is offered to both companys and schools around the country.

David has a BSEE from Cornell University where he was the McMillan Scholar, an MSEE in Computer Science from MIT where he taught introductory EE and Compiler Design. He received his MBA in Information Systems from the Boston University School of Management.