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President Obama names IBM Vice President David J. Kappos to serve as the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Kappos, IBM's assistant general counsel for intellectual property law, testified in March that he supports the controversial patent reform law before Congress.
- Not many presidential nominees come with the public record of David J. Kappos, President Obama's pick to serve as the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But Kappos, currently serving as IBM's vice president and assistant general counsel for intellectual property law, is a fam...

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