Government
Mar. 24, 2009
Appeals Justices Firm Up Patent Office's Authority to Make Procedural Rules
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has the authority to impose restrictions aimed at streamlining the patent application process as long as they are procedural in nature, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN JOSE - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has the authority to impose restrictions aimed at streamlining the patent application process as long as they are procedural in nature, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned the April 2008 decision of a Virginia federal judge who had wiped out patent office rules that limited the ...
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