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| Jim Pooley |
His nomination will have to be approved by
WIPO
’s 184 member states at a meeting in September.
There are four deputy director-general positions at WIPO, one of which is vacant following Francis Gurry’s election as director-general last year. There are also three assistant director-general positions.
All of the positions are up for election this year. Appointments, which will take effect from the beginning of 2010, are normally for six-year terms.
By convention, a US representative fills one of the positions. Michael Keplinger of the US is the current deputy director-general with responsibility for copyright and enforcement.
Pooley was one of the main candidates to be
USPTO
director.
US
Secretary of Commerce
Gary Locke announced last week that he has nominated someone for that role, but the name has not yet been released.
Pooley’s WIPO nomination leaves
AIPLA
executive director Q Todd Dickinson, David Kappos of IBM and Mike Kirk, former AIPLA executive director, in the running for that post.
Pooley is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster in the firm’s litigation department and served as 2008 president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
