B.S., University of Illinois; J.D. Harvard. A registered patent attorney, Professor Krause is Solicitor at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, where he supervises, litigates, and provides advice in patent, trademark, and copyright matters. Professor Krause graduated from Harvard Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, Professor Krause clerked for the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then practiced with the Washington D.C. firm of Covington & Burling, where he specialized in patent prosecution and litigation. Prior to law school, Professor Krause served in the United States Navy for several years aboard a fast attack nuclear submarine.
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January 10, 2019
United States Patent and Trademark Office appointed Adjunct Professor Thomas Krause's as Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Solicitor, January 10, 2019.
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