Alberto Casado Cerviño (born 15 October 1952 in

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the '' Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality wh ...

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) is a former Director General of the

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. He was appointed to this position on May 24, 2008. From July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, he also acted as Chairman ad interim of the

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.European Patent Office (EPO) web site
''Administrative Council, Composition''
Consulted on December 4, 2009. Previously, from 1994 to 2004, he served as Vice-President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). In June 2012, Alberto Casado Cerviño was appointed to the position of Vice-President DG 2 ("Directorate-General Operational Support") of the

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with a mandate for five years.

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