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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Rachel Hoffman Gilmore <<a href="mailto:hoffmanr@mit.edu">hoffmanr@mit.edu</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>TODAY at 3PM - USPTO Director Michelle Lee - 10-250</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">March 31, 2016 at 11:33:12 AM EDT</span></div>
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<font size="4"><b>TODAY at 3PM!</b> Lecture by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4"><font color="0000FF"><b>Michelle K. Lee</b></font>, Under Secretary of Commerce
for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:</font> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font color="FF0000" size="5"><b><i>On the Front Lines of Promoting Innovation: From MIT to Washington, D.C.</i></b></font><b><br>
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<font size="4">March 31st, 3-4PM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></b><font size="4"><b>Huntington Hall (10-250)</b></font></span></font><br>
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<font size="3">Michelle K. Lee</font></b><font size="3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(’89) is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Ms. Lee is the first
woman to serve as Director of the USPTO in the country’s 225+ year history. She also serves as the principal advisor to the President, through the Secretary of Commerce, on domestic and international intellectual property policy matters. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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Prior to joining the USPTO, she was Deputy General Counsel for Google and the company’s first Head of Patents and Patent Strategy. She has extensive legal experience advising a wide range of high-technology clients from startups to Fortune 100 companies and
in the federal judiciary as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before building her legal career, Ms. Lee worked as a computer scientist at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, as well as at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
She received her B.S. and M.S. in Course 6 from MIT, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.</font></span></font></span></font></span></font></span></font></span></font><br>
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<font size="3">Sponsored by the Science Policy Initiative and the Office of the Vice President for Research.</font></div>
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