Director of IP Policy, US Senator Thom Tillis, Committee on the Judiciary, US Senate​

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Peter-Anthony is a patent professional licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He serves as the Director of Intellectual Property (IP) Policy for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under Senator Thom Tillis – Chairman of the Subcommittee on IP – to whom he advises on all IP matters (e.g., patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret). Peter-Anthony also advises the Senator on tech policy (e.g., artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc.), antitrust, and Judiciary Committee nominations, including Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Previously, he served on detail as a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under Senator Tillis – then Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on IP. Prior to his roles in the U.S. Senate, Peter-Anthony served on detail as the Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of the USPTO. He advised the Director on IP, artificial intelligence (AI), and agency operational matters. Most notably, Peter-Anthony helped develop the 2019 “Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance,” a framework for how the agency could leverage AI for assisting in search during examination, and the first agency working group tasked with considering the interplay between AI and IP rights. While at the USPTO Peter-Anthony served on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Subcommittee AI Research and Development Interagency Working Group and he served on the Department of Commerce Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) AI Standards Coordination Working Group. He has also served in various other USPTO roles, including Patent Trial and Appeal Board Branch Chief, Supervisory Patent Examiner, and Primary Patent Examiner. Peter-Anthony has co-authored two papers with the USPTO’s Office of the Chief Economist – “Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the USPTO” and “Patents and the Independent Inventor Lifecycle.” These papers are based on USPTO’s first randomized control trial, which was created by Peter-Anthony. This randomized control trial also served as the foundation for the creation of the agency’s Pro Se Pilot Program, which provided affirmative patent assistance to independent inventors and small businesses. Peter-Anthony also served on the Supervisory Patent Examiners and Classifiers Organization (SPECO) Board of Directors for over a decade and for nearly five of those years served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. SPECO is a nonprofit organization, established over 50 years ago, that promotes the progress of the patent examination system and is comprised of over 400 USPTO managers and professionals. Peter-Anthony also serves on multiple other boards and committees. Peter-Anthony received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and received an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the third generation of his family to pursue public service.