Austin Mayron is a Senior Legal Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Senior Legal Advisor, he provides expert legal advice to USPTO leadership on a wide range of patent-related legal and policy issues, including patent eligibility; the America Invents Act; proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); litigation before the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court; and PTAB and patent-related precedent, Director guidance, and rulemaking.
Before joining the USPTO, Mr. Mayron was an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, focusing on intellectual property law. He also served as a Judicial Law Clerk to Judge Elizabeth L. Branch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Steven J. Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Earlier in his career, he served as a Deputy Associate Counsel in the Office of White House Counsel, where he advised the President on a range of executive branch legal issues.
Mr. Mayron earned a Juris Doctor from the Washington University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.