After graduating with a degree in accounting from Drake University, Bernard Knight knew one thing for sure: He did not want to be an accountant. “It just seemed a little boring,” he recalls. So Knight enrolled in law school at the University of Southern California. Since then his career highlights have included stints at the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In April he was appointed general counsel of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
It isn’t his first stint at the agency. Knight was the PTO’s first-ever deputy GC for general law. It had previously depended on the U.S. Department of Commerce for administrative legal work. But he got yanked from the PTO in 2006, and was sent to the Treasury.
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