Nomination of Jeffrey M. Samuels To Be an Assistant Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jeffrey M. Samuels to be an Assistant Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks at the Department of Commerce . He would succeed Margaret Muth Laurence.

Since 1982 Mr. Samuels has been managing editor for the Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal at the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Prior to this he was legal editor for the Patent, Trademark & Copyright

Journal, 1976-1982.

Mr. Samuels graduated from Colgate University (B.A., 1972) and Albany Law School (J.D., 1975). He was born May 8, 1950, in Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Samuels is married, has two children, and resides in Great Falls, VA.