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Qualifications

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Roberta Morris of Stanford Law School has prepared a mock application form for Director of the USPTO. It's nicely done, and misses the large point. Whatever checkboxes of experiential minutiae a Director candidate may claim, the challenge is conceptual, and managerial. Does a candidate really understand what the patent office is supposed to do - namely, carefully inspect applications, so as to grant based upon merit, within the boundaries defined by statute and case law? Not treat patents as a political hot potato, as Dudas did. And does the candidate have a sense of resource, rule, and people management, to optimize productivity while not succumbing to production-line mentality? All the experience in the world won't clue someone conceptually clueless,...

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).