David Kappos is the newly minted Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  As if that title wasn't already a mouthful, it looks like Kappos' title just grew a bit longer.  You can now add "blogger" to his title.  Yes, that's right a few days ago Kappos began a PTO blog.  The blog can be found at:  http://www.uspto.gov/blog/.   I commend the PTO and Kappos, in particular, for providing this new forum, and for jumping right into  his new position and attempting to promptly address many of the issues confront the PTO and other stakeholders in the patent system.