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Kappos Nomination Supported by Industry and Patent Groups

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last Thursday, the White House announced that President Obama had selected David Kappos (at right), the Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Intellectual Property Law at IBM, to head up the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In the days since that announcement, a number of patent organizations and trade groups have released statements commenting on Mr. Kappos' nomination. While many of these organizations ordinarily find it difficult to agree on almost any patent-related issue, they seem to have reached consensus on President Obama's selection -- and the news is good for Mr. Kappos who, once...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).