John Squires has been selected as the new director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . He will also serve as under secretary of commerce for intellectual property. As the chief intellectual property executive, Squires will serve as an adviser to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump and various government agencies. He spent almost nine years as chief IP counsel at Goldman Sachs, where he founded the investment bank’s IP practice. Earlier in his career, Squires was general counsel and chief IP counsel at Honeywell, and an associate at Clifford Chance and Morgan & Finnegan.