John J. Doll (September 8, 1948 - May 20, 2021) is the former Acting United States
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
The Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, or USC(IP), is a senior official in the United States Department of Commerce and the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of Commerce on the intellectual property matters. In t ...
and
Acting director of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alex ...
(USPTO) due to the resignation of
Jon W. Dudas on January 20, 2009.
[Biography on the USPTO web site. Consulted on January 29, 2009.] Before that, Doll was Commissioner for Patents at the USPTO. He joined the Patent and Trademark Office in 1974.
Doll retired from the USPTO in 2009. After leaving the USPTO, he became a
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...
consultant, working as an
expert witness
An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as ...
in patent matters.
References
External links
JohnJDoll.com - Patent Consulting Website* PTO Today July/August 200
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Under Secretaries of Commerce for Intellectual Property
1948 births
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