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Deputy Director Peterlin Announces Resignation

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that Margaret Peterlin, Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO will resign from her post some time in August. Deputy Director Peterlin (at left) has been a controversial figure in the Office, in part because she apparently lacked qualifications long thought to be required for senior Patent Office management positions, and for her association with several of the controversial "new rules" packages promulgated by the Dudas regime. She survived a court challenge to her appointment mounted by Greg Aharonian, noted intellectual...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).