Former Penn Carey Law adjunct professor John Squires named director of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

John Squires, a former adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, was named the next director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Squires will serve as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and advise 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump and the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on intellectual property policy. In the Sept. 22 announcement, Squires wrote that the opportunity to lead a large and influential office was “both humbling and the honor of a lifetime.”

“I look forward to working with my colleagues to deliver on the promise of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship — the very essence of our American spirit — and to equip, modernize, and align our agency to be the vanguard of our creative triumphs and fuel economic growth, technological progress, and global competitiveness,” Squires added.

Squires served as an adjunct professor for Penn Carey Law’s L.L.M. program, where he helped lawyers trained outside the country learn about law in the United States.