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Senate Judiciary Committee Hears from Director Nominee

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from David Kappos (at right), the Obama Administration's nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While the hearing was mostly uneventful, Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) provided an interesting line of questioning when he asked Mr. Kappos to explain how he would balance his new obligations as Director with his old loyalties to IBM. When Mr. Kappos responded by saying that he would recuse himself from matters that specifically involved IBM, Sen. Specter inquired about global decisions Mr. Kappos...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).