In some of her first public comments, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal noted, “we’ve laid a lot of groundwork in the last few years, but we need to connect the dots now.” She spoke of the importance of collaborating across agencies and borders and shared her vision and goals for the agency. I sensed a deep willingness to listen, engage, and lead in tackling common challenges.
I saw this willingness as well in Director Videl’s response to an audience question about The New York Times op-ed on patents (https://nyti.ms/3L5Q8Ac), where she said, “I thought some of the ideas in the editorial had merit, and I will say just overall whether you’re in the New York Times, whether you’ve just got a great idea, and you want to express it more privately, I want to hear all the good ideas, and I thought a lot of those were really good. So I think it’s just part of a long continuing dialogue.”
In some of her first public comments, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal noted, “we’ve laid a lot of groundwork in the last few years, but we need to connect the dots now.” She spoke of the importance of collaborating across agencies and borders and shared her vision and goals for the agency. I sensed a deep willingness to listen, engage, and lead in tackling common challenges.
I saw this willingness as well in Director Videl’s response to an audience question about The New York Times op-ed on patents (https://nyti.ms/3L5Q8Ac), where she said, “I thought some of the ideas in the editorial had merit, and I will say just overall whether you’re in the New York Times, whether you’ve just got a great idea, and you want to express it more privately, I want to hear all the good ideas, and I thought a lot of those were really good. So I think it’s just part of a long continuing dialogue.”
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