Jon Dudas
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Jon W. Dudas serves as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a position to which he was nominated by President George W. Bush in March 2004 and appointed in July 2004. Dudas previously served as acting Under Secretary and Director, and Deputy Under Secretary and Deputy Director from 2002 to 2004.
As Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Dudas is the lead policy advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, the President of the United States, and Administration agencies on intellectual property matters. Focusing on enhanced intellectual property (IP) protection for large corporations in 2006 Dudas had USPTO IP personnel placed in several high-profile countries, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, and Thailand. The USPTO IP personnel are tasked with promoting the USPTO's agenda and providing consultative IP support to U.S. embassies and consulates.
As Director of the USPTO, Dudas is responsible for administering the laws relevant to granting patents and trademarks, and the day-to-day management of the agency's $1.7 billion budget and over 8,000 employees. [1]
Federal government agencies track performance in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). In Fiscal Year 2006 (October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2006), USPTO broke records for improving quality[2], efficiency, e-filing, hiring, training, and hoteling (employees able to work from home), according to the objective measures reported under the GPRA.
Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Dudas served six years as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, and Staff Director and Deputy General Counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary, where he guided enactment of major patent, trademark and copyright policy, including the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He was also instrumental in the passage of the 1996 Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Protection Act, a law making it more difficult for seized counterfeit merchandise to re-enter the consumer marketplace. Before his employment with the House of Representatives, Under Secretary Dudas practiced law in the Chicago law firm of Neal Gerber & Eisenberg.
Dudas holds a bachelor of science in finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Chicago, with honors. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar and the Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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“ | It is our responsibility not only to do everything we can do to perfect the patent system in the United States ... and we must also actively educate the world that it is fundamentally the best system. [3] | ” |
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- ^ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2006. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2006. Available at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/2006/2006annualreport.pdf
- ^ The "quality" measurement reported most prominently by the PTO, the "Patent Allowance Compliance Rate" considers only applications that were allowed by the examiner but should have been rejected, without reflecting any statistically meaningful sampling or rigorous analysis of applications that were rejected that should have been allowed. Such one-sided measurements are not typically considered reliable in private sector quality management.
- ^ Statement of The Honorable Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Committee on The Judiciary, United States Senate, “The Patent System: Today and Tomorrow”, April 21, 2005
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