F. Scott Kieff Nominated as International Trade Commissioner

September 11, 2012

On September 11, 2012, President Obama nominated F. Scott Kieff to be a member of the International Trade Commission (ITC) for a term expiring on June 16, 2020. Kieff would replace Commissioner Daniel Pearson, whose term expired in June 2011. Kieff is a professor at The George Washington University Law School and a Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation and is a member of the Property Rights Task Force. From 2007 to 2010, Kieff served as a member of the Patent Public Advisory Committee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which advises the government regarding policies, goals, performance, budget, and user fees related to patent operation. From 2005 to 2007 he served as a mediator in the appellate mediation program for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Kieff previously practiced law at Jenner & Block in Chicago and at Pennie & Edmonds in New York. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Kieff holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.