Last week President-elect Trump announced that he would nominate Gail Slater as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, people with knowledge of the Trump Transition tell IPWatchdog that the front runner to be named Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) continues to be Vishal Amin, Intel’s head of IP policy. While it is true that Amin served as the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator during President Trump’s first term, the appointment of Amin to head the USPTO would be an extraordinary head-scratcher, if that in fact does come to pass.

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