Q Todd Dickinson (December 21, 1952 – May 3, 2020)[3] was an Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
[3] Dickinson began his legal career as a patent and trademark lawyer with Baxter Travenol Laboratories in Deerfield, Illinois, and then took a job with the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, law firm of Blenko, Buell, Ziesenheim and Beck.
Dickinson was a founding member of the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom and served as a national governor of the Human Rights Campaign.
[2] In 1990, Dickinson moved to Philadelphia to be Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property and Technology at Sun Company, Inc., a post he would hold until 1995, when he joined the law firm of Dechert Price & Rhoads.
[12] In March 2015, he joined Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP as Global Chair of its Client Select Strategic Services Group.
[2][17] Andrei Iancu, then serving as Director of the USPTO, said in a statement that "Todd was immensely knowledgeable and influential in the intellectual property community.