Full Fed. Circ. Urged To Reject Hirshfeld's Director Reviews

By Andrew Karpan ( July 26, 2022, 6:34 PM EDT) -- An engineer and longtime critic of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has weighed in on a Federal Circuit ruling that allowed a former patent commissioner to conduct director reviews while he was at the helm of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, claiming this would let federal agencies "cut corners" and render public accountability "superfluous."...

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