Kevin R. Amer is a Senior Level Attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he leads the Copyright Policy Team in the Office of Policy and International Affairs. Before joining USPTO, he spent several years in leadership roles with the U.S. Copyright Office, where he served in both the Office of Policy and International Affairs and the Office of General Counsel. Previously, he was an attorney in private practice, where he focused on litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He received an A.B. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.