Joel Felber

Joel Felber is a patent attorney and partner at Leason Ellis who helps technology driven companies protect, monetize, and leverage their most valuable innovations. His practice focuses on computing hardware and software technologies, where he combines deep technical fluency with practical legal strategy to support clients at every stage of growth, maintenance, and eventual exit.

Joel advises clients across a wide range of sophisticated technology sectors, including artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, digital health engagement and risk platforms, high performance distributed intelligence systems, imaging systems, social marketing systems, collaborative media creation, cloud based medical information systems, interactive communications platforms, encryption and security technologies, and a wide range of other technologies. He is particularly adept at translating complex technical concepts into clear, articulable and defensible intellectual property positions aligned with respective business objectives.

In addition to patent and intellectual property procurement, Joel regularly negotiates and drafts agreements, including licenses, software development and consulting contracts, employment agreements, and other agreements containing or addressing intellectual property clauses.

Joel’s practice is grounded in real world engineering and software development experience. Before entering the legal profession, he worked as a programmer analyst at Yale University’s Library Systems Office. Prior to joining Yale, Joel was a professional software engineer and programmer, where he developed mission critical applications for healthcare institutions including the Emergency Department at Yale–New Haven Hospital, the Department of Virology at the West Haven Connecticut Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Department of Care Management at the Hospital of Saint Raphael, and the New Haven Sponsor Hospital Program. Joel also served as an officer at Geminga Medical, Inc., where he led the development and commercialization of a medical software application designed to calculate impairment of the upper extremity of the human body. Joel’s hands on experience building, deploying, and commercializing software gives Joel a practical, business focused perspective that resonates with innovators, entrepreneurs, and in house legal teams alike.

Joel earned his B.A. from Hartwick College and his J.D. from Western New England College School of Law.