Robin Evans serves as Deputy Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where she provides executive leadership for patent-examining functions in Technology Centers 1600 and 3600, which encompass biotechnology, organic chemistry, transportation, construction, agriculture, electronic commerce, and national security. She also provides leadership for the Office of Patent Training, the Office of Process Improvement, and the Office of Patents Stakeholder Experience.
Most recently, Ms. Evans served as Acting Commissioner for Patents, overseeing nearly 11,000 Patents employees, including more than 9,000 patent examiners supporting the nation’s innovation system.
Ms. Evans began her USPTO career as a patent examiner focused on applications in the mechanical arts. She subsequently served as a supervisory patent examiner in electrical heating technology and fluid handling technologies, as well as a management quality assurance specialist. She later became the first regional manager of the USPTO’s Midwest Elijah J. McCoy Regional Office in Detroit, Michigan and was then heddappointed to the Senior Executive Service as a Director of Technology Center 2800. She also served as interim director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, Colorado.
Ms. Evans holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.