Michelle K. Lee New Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker appointed Michelle K. Lee, the current director of the USPTO's Silicon Valley satellite office, as the next Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Engineer and attorney Lee has strived to strengthen patent quality and curb abusive patent legislation. Her background includes working as a Hewlett-Packard computer scientist, a district court law clerk, a partner in a Silicon Valley law firm, and as Google's first Head of Patents and Patent Strategy. For more information, see the press release.