New names continue to surface for potential leadership of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under the Trump administration, even as an influential Republican congressman has publicly called for the current director to be retained.
Randall Rader, the former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, is among those to have thrown his hat in the ring. “Yes, several senators have sent my name to the Trump team for the position of director of the USPTO,” Rader said in response to an email query. “The best way to protect U.S. jobs is to protect worldwide the IP that creates and guarantees those jobs.”
