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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 3. and PART 3½)

FDA Law Blog

Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Patent Term Extension (“PTE”) decisions under 35 U.S.C. § The answer he was looking for was simply “Grant” (and not a numerical figure), although the full correct answer would be Ulysses S. The point here for our purposes, however, is that “Grant” includes both Ulysses S.

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Justices craft their own remedy for violation of Constitution’s appointments clause

SCOTUSBlog

Share On Monday, the justices ruled 5-4 that the “unreviewable authority” of administrative patent judges meant those APJs were appointed in violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause. Patent and Trademark Office now has the discretion to review those APJ decisions. Both rulings occurred in United States v.

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