Bruce Lehman

Bruce Lehman is best known as the United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a position he held from 1993 through 1998. Since leaving the USPTO, Mr. Lehman founded the International Intellectual Property Institute, a non-profit dedicated to increasing understanding of the use of intellectual property as a tool for economic growth. Mr. Lehman has served as legal counsel in the drafting of the 1976 Copyright Act, the 1980 Computer Software Amendments, and 1982 amendments to the Patent Laws. In 2006, he was one of 23 initial inductees to the International IP Hall of Fame.