- President-elect not beholden to Silicon Valley
- Clout of Google, others at PTO may wane
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Patent and Trademark Office will likely be very different from Director Michelle K. Lee, who was Google’s top patent attorney before heading the PTO.
Trump has an uneasy relationship with Silicon Valley, which overwhelmingly supported his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Other than that, it’s difficult to predict even the background of Lee’s successor, given that no specific industry, other than real estate, significantly contributed to Trump’s campaign.
One possibility is Philip S. Johnson, a pharmaceutical industry patent attorney who ...
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