Iancu Nomination Hearing

  1. American Patent Law is Exceptional.
  2. System should be Reliable, Predictable and High Quality.
  3. PTO should be a “culture of excellence”
  4. Priorities:
    • Bring stability and reliability to patent system.
    • Evangelize the IP System and the excitement and benefits of invention; confidence in the IP system is necessary for investment in innovation.
    • IPR System: The system needs to be balanced and returned to a higher level of predictability; one mechanism is to have the Director involved in decisions by the Board.
    • Eligibility: Supreme Court jurisprudence is the “current law of the land” but has produced a level of uncertainty.
    • Trade: Insist that trading partners have high level of IP rights and enforcement mechanisms.

17 thoughts on “Iancu Nomination Hearing

  1. 7

    >>>IPR System: The system needs to be balanced and returned to a higher level of predictability; one mechanism is to have the Director involved in decisions by the Board.<<<

    Oh, yea, that will be great. More politics injected into the system – as if it isn't screwed up enough already….!!!

    What a nightmare….!!!!!

    1. 7.1

      > The system needs to be balanced and returned to a higher level of predictability…

      Yes, absolutely – desperately needed.

      > …one mechanism is to have the Director involved in decisions by the Board.

      I have no idea how this idea connects with the previous sentence. It’s like: “Recognizing that the national debt is a serious and urgent issue, we recommend ending network neutrality.” No logical connection here.

      The Board is made up of administrative law judges. The Director of the USPTO is a political appointee. As I recall, the recent USPTO directors, collectively, have zero minutes of judicial experience. How would this change make any sense? Never mind that there have to be specific requirements for appointing judges to the panel that are probably violated by a per se appointment of the director.

      1. 7.1.1

        Never mind that there have to be specific requirements for appointing judges to the panel that are probably violated by a per se appointment of the director

        Nope – not with the administrative agency known as the patent office. Such has LONG been written into that agency’s operating rules.

  2. 4

    “Evangelize”???? Why would you use that word to describe something that has nothing to do with religion? How odd.

    1. 4.2

      “Evangelize”???? Why would you use that word to describe something that has nothing to do with religion?

      A policy that is pursued with religious zeal inherently has “something” to do with religion. See also “true believers.”

  3. 3

    Maybe he will be OK. I’ll bet the PTAB is not looking forward to having the director review each of their decisions.

    1. 3.1

      The Director already “reviews” each of their decisions – are you forgetting the facet of expanded panels in order to reach desired end results and drive “consistency” of the political agenda that the administrative agency pursues?

      This item really is not “new” in any meaningful sense of the word.

    2. 3.2

      Night, the last thing we need is more supervision by political appointees.

      At a minimum, the PTAB must be separated from the PTO and its executive Department employees masquerading as judges actually be made into magistrates reporting into district courts. Once we have supervision by real judges, as opposed to a political appointees, then we will get fairness.

      1. 3.2.1

        Dude, the PTAB is already hopelessly political, just because the Director is using masks of employees, makes it worse than just seating himself IMHO. I like your second point.

  4. 2

    I created that playlist after I watched my 8 year old

    1) capture some video clips by means of screencastify-lite (a Chrome plug-in) and then

    2) build a playlist by means of youtube Creator Studio.

    BTW, I hate Movie Star Planet, but I can’t deny that Molly taught herself to read and write (4 years ago) by playing this vile Internet social videogame and Roblox.

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