On Thursday, January 14, 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office named Molly Kocialski director of its Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, effective immediately. Kocialski has contributed extensively to the intellectual property community in Colorado, and has been a speaker at CLE’s Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute each year since 2007. Kocialski is a past chair of the CBA’s Intellectual Property Section. Prior to becoming Director of the USPTO, Kocialski was Senior Patent Counsel for Oracle, Inc., where she was responsible for managing an active patent prosecution docket and for patent investigations for Oracle and its subsidiaries, as well as providing IP support for mergers and acquisitions. She received her law degree from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico.
On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Governor Hickenlooper’s office announced the governor’s appointment of Amanda Hunter to the Custer County Court, effective immediately. Hunter will fill a vacancy created by the appointment of Hon. Peter Michaelson to the Eighteenth Judicial District Court.
Hunter currently works at the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office in Salida, where she has been since 2011. Prior to that, she was a law clerk at the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender for four months and a law clerk at the Iowa State Public Defender’s office for four months. She also worked at the Credit Advisors Foundation for seven years. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa in 2002 and her law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2011.
On Thursday, January 14, 2016, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued no published opinion and three unpublished opinions.