SAN FRANCISCO At a recent speaking engagement, Michelle Lee, the recently appointed head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Silicon Valley, declared the new outpost to be "open for business." Well, not quite.
Since Lee, the former head of IP strategy at Google Inc., joined in November, six judges have been appointed by the secretary of commerce. But the office hasn’t yet hired any of what could amount to hundreds of patent examiners that will eventually work out of the local outpost. Nor has Lee settled on a permanent location. For now, Lee and the other hires are working out of temporary offices in Menlo Park which is why Lee’s speech this past week was held at SanDisk Corp.’s Milpitas headquarters.
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