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Arti Rai Departing From The USPTO

By Peter Zura

Hal Wegner has just broke the news that Arti Rai, Administrator for External Affairs, is leaving the PTO to an unspecificed position that has not been announced by the government.

As Administrator for External Affairs, Rai served as a policy adviser to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and oversaw the office's work with Congress on major legislation to reform patent law and practice, coordinate informational and educational events on piracy and counterfeiting, and implementing international intellectual property treaties.  Rai was sworn into this position on October 9, 2009.

For those interested, the government has posted a job opening for this position, which can be viewed here (link)

Full post as published by Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).