Acting Deputy Commissioner David Wiley provides executive leadership to offices overseeing training, statistics, process improvement, and stakeholder outreach. He also provides executive oversight over patent-examining functions in technology centers 1600 and 3600, that examine in the technologies of biotechnology, organic chemistry, transportation, construction, agriculture, electronic commerce, and national security.
Mr. Wiley joined the USPTO as a patent examiner in 1994. He was a patent examiner in the electrical/computer architecture and computer networks and served as a Supervisory Patent Examiner in the areas of Computer Networking and Graphical User Interfaces. He also served for several years in the Commissioner for patents office as a senior advisor. Mr. Wiley spent a year as the Director of the Office of Planning and Budget in the CFO’s office where he oversaw the formulation and execution of the entire USPTO’s budget. Mr. Wiley was also the acting Deputy CIO for a year in 2017/2018.
He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in January 2012 and most recently served in the capacity of Director in two Technology Centers, 2600 Communications and his current TC of 2100 overseeing Artificial Intelligence and GUI technologies.
Mr. Wiley holds a BS in Computer Engineering, from Clarkson University.