The USPTO’s administrator of the Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA) Al Tramposch has resigned his post with the USPTO to return to AIPLA as deputy executive director for international and regulatory affairs.
Tramposch left AIPLA to join the USPTO in January last year.
Shira Perlmutter will take Trampsoch’s place as the new OPEA acting administrator beginning January 9.
Perlmutter has served as executive vice president of global legal policy for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry since 2005, and has also worked as a professor, associate register for policy and international affairs at the US Copyright Office, as a consultant on copyright and e-commerce for WIPO and as vice president and associate general counsel for IP policy at Time-Warner.