James Pooley Leads United Nation’s Patent Division

Associated Press, June 16, 2009
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/americas/2009/06/18/212780/American-to.htm

American lawyer James Pooley was chosen Tuesday to lead the World Intellectual Property Agency’s patent division…. The position is one of the most important within the agency, which generates most of its income from patent registration fees and is the only U.N. body to run a profit. Pooley is an adjunct law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an intellectual-property lawyer at Morrison and Foerster in Palo Alto.