Title Supervisory Patent Examiner Company US Patent and Trademark Office Bio Dr. Daniel Kolker is a Supervisory Patent Examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office. He supervises examiners Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology. Dan joined the USPTO in 2004 as a Patent Examiner in neurobiology and related subjects and became a manager in 2012. Before joining the USPTO, Dan earned a B.A. in Psychology from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University, and performed research at the National Institutes of Health.