Government
Dec. 12, 2014
California attorney must wait for vote to become patent office chief
A vote to confirm longtime Silicon Valley lawyer Michelle K. Lee as the new permanent director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will not happen until the new Republican-led Congress is sworn in next year.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The nearly two-year wait for a permanent director to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will extend at least another month, after an influential Republican senator nixed any notions Wednesday that the outgoing Democrat-led Senate would vote on Silicon Valley lawyer Michelle K. Lee.
Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said that the incoming Senate - which ...
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