The Whitehouse has announced its intent to appoint David Kappos as head of the USPTO.

A little over one year ago, IBM’s IP arm announced that it co-founded a patent pool called the Eco-Patents Commons. Kappos said, “[t]here’s no reason that environmentally sustainable activity cannot be commercially advantageous,” according to a CNET article posted last year.

The Wikipedia’s wiki site for patent pools information is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_pool.