The President today announced that he will nominate Donald W. Banner, of Aurora, Ill., to be Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. He would replace C. Marshall Dann, resigned.
Banner was born February 23, 1924, in Chicago. He received a B.S. from Purdue University in 1948, a J.D. from the University of Detroit in 1952, and a Master of Patent Laws degree from John Marshall Law School in 1958.
Banner has been with Borg-Warner Corp. since 1953 and has been general patent counsel there since 1964. He is responsible for all matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and licensing and technology exchange agreements.
Banner is president-elect of the American Patent Law Association and vice president of the International Patent and Trademark Association.
Jimmy Carter, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Nomination of Donald W. Banner. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244073