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Former USPTO solicitor urges rejection of director nominee Squires

By Nick Robertson ( May 29, 2025, 22:52 GMT | Insight) -- Thomas Krause, the former US Patent and Trademark Office solicitor, said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee today that USPTO director nominee John Squires isn’t the best fit for the role. Krause said Squires’s agenda to make patents stronger is the “wrong approach” and would only enrich investors, not inventors, “at the public’s expense.”One of the country’s most experienced patent attorneys urged members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today to vote against the nomination of John Squires to lead the US Patent and Trademark Office....

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