Christal Sheppard Biography

Christal Sheppard is the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Midwest Satellite Office located in Detroit Michigan. She leads the USPTO operations policy and community outreach efforts throughout the Midwestern United States.
Prior to joining the USPTO Sheppard was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska where she co-founded a program of concentrated study in intellectual property law at the Law College.
Sheppard has master’s and doctoral degrees in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Michigan and a juris doctor degree from Cornell University Law School. She has more than two decades of science and intellectual property law and policy experience including as practicing attorney at Foley & Lardner and the United States International Trade Commission and through internships with Judge Radar at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Executive Office of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2005 Sheppard completed Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Education for Senior Managers in Government program and in 2014 she completed a George Mason University Law and Economics Institute program.

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