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Aug. 27, 2017

Multichannel News: Trump Nominates Iancu USPTO Chief, John Eggerton

This post originally appeared in Multichannel News on August 27, 2017.


President Donald Trump has nominaed Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Iancu will Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property…

“We congratulate Mr. Iancu on his nomination to be Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,” said Brian Pomper, executive director of the Innovation Alliance. “A nationally recognized and respected intellectual property law expert, Mr. Iancu has served clients across the technical spectrum. We believe that he will be able to balance the views of independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and various industry groups—all those that form our U.S. innovation ecosystem.”

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