Patents reporter Decker retiring from Bloomberg

Sue Decker, who has been covering patent litigation and policy at Bloomberg News for more than two decades, is retiring.

She has been based in its Washington bureau.

“I should add a giganto thanks to all the reporters, lawyers, analysts, and interested folks that I’ve worked with over the past two decades,” she wrote on Twitter. “Patents are by far the most fascinating area of the law and a great window into the future.”

Decker joined Bloomberg in September 1999. She previously spent five years as a reporter for Florida Today, a Gannett paper, and five years as a reporter for the Ocean County Observer in Toms River, New Jersey.

She went to college at Stockton State College, now Stockton University, in New Jersey.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.