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Appointee Directory View:   Jonathan Dudas -- Department of Commerce Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Mr. Dudas served six years as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, and Staff Director and Deputy General Counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary, where he guided enactment of major patent, trademark and copyright policy, including the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He was also instrumental in the passage of the 1996 Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Protection Act, a law making it more difficult for seized counterfeit merchandise to re-enter the consumer marketplace. Before his employment with the House of Representatives, Under Secretary Dudas practiced law in the Chicago law firm of Neal Gerber & Eisenberg. Mr. Dudas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Chicago, with honors. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar and the Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and their four children. 571-272-8600

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