Bush to nominate new patent office head
President Bush will nominate Jonathan Dudas to run the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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President Bush said Tuesday that he will nominate Jonathan Dudas to run the . Currently, Dudas is the deputy director of the patent office and has been acting director since James Rogan left last year.
If approved by the Senate, Dudas, a former staff director of the House Judiciary Committee, would take over at a time when Congress is considering revamping the way the patent office gets its money. A bill the House of Representatives approved this month would effectively boost the patent office's budget by more than $200 million, permitting the agency to reduce its backlog of patent requests.