InformationWeek: USPTO's CIO Moving To Interior Department

According to an August 24, 2004 article in InformationWeek, Douglas Bourgeois, who has been CIO at the agency for more than three years, announced Monday that he has accepted an offer to become director of the Department of Interior's National Business Center. Bourgeois will be succeeded in the interim by Deputy CIO Ronald Hack who has been the principal adviser to the Patent Office on the application of IT to support the office's business processes.