Derrick Brent
Alexandria,
VA
Derrick Brent serves as deputy under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the USPTO. He manages a wide portfolio of programs and operations for one of the largest IP offices in the world, with more than 13,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $4 billion. His responsibilities include working with the director to lead the USPTO; advancing IP policy and procedures for the benefit of the country; expanding the USPTO’s outreach efforts to incentivize and support more innovation and entrepreneurship nationwide; and executing the agency’s policies, priorities, and programs. His career includes vast public service and private sector work, including significant experience in IP law and work to assist startups as well as those who are underrepresented. He served for six years as chief counsel for Senator Barbara Boxer, where he was responsible for a broad portfolio that included IP and constitutional issues, civil rights, telecommunications, and judicial nominations. During his time in the Senate, Mr. Brent was recognized as one of the most knowledgeable counsels on IP and a respected authority on 2011’s America Invents Act and other impactful legislative initiatives. He has served in all three branches of the federal government: executive, legislative, and judicial. In addition to his work as a chief counsel in the Senate, he clerked for the Hon. Algenon L. Marbley, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. After litigating at the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Ohio, he served six years as a senior trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, where he received a Special Achievement Award for his trial work.
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