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posted by martyb on Monday August 28 2017, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the ®-and-™ dept.

President Donald Trump has selected Andrei Iancu, the managing partner of a major Los Angeles law firm, to be the next head of the US Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO].

His most notable work in the tech sector is likely his representation of TiVo Corp. in its long-running patent battles with companies like EchoStar, Motorola, Microsoft, Verizon, and Cisco. TiVo ultimately succeeded in compelling those defendants to pay up for its pioneering DVR patents, and payments to TiVo ultimately totaled more than $1.6 billion, according to Iancu's biography page.

Iancu also had a hand in Immersion Corp's $82 million jury verdict against Sony Computer Entertainment in which a jury found that Immersion's patent claims on tactile feedback technology were valid and infringed.

[...] Iancu earned his JD, along with an MS in mechanical engineering and a BS in aerospace engineering, from UCLA. He worked as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft before attending law school.

Handling the business of a large and successful law firm like Irell & Manella means that Iancu is no slouch when it comes to management skills. And his varied set of clients could help him avoid the tug of war that often pops up between tech and pharma over how to manage the patent system.

If confirmed by the Senate, Iancu will replace Michelle Lee, the outgoing USPTO director who left shortly after Trump's inauguration. Lee, a former Google attorney, was a favorite of the tech sector.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/ip-lawyer-who-represented-tivo-is-trumps-pick-as-uspto-chief/


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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 28 2017, @10:43PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday August 28 2017, @10:43PM (#560563) Journal

    When will you fools quit begging for scraps, and start building your own world instead?

    When the relevant patents expire.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 28 2017, @11:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 28 2017, @11:45PM (#560587)

    You don't need to watch that show; alter your passions.