U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property
Dec. 12, 2019
US high court slams patent office over attorney fees
The U.S. Supreme Court took the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to task Wednesday, unanimously voting to deny the department's claim for attorney fees incurred while defending a failed patent's appeal.
The U.S. Supreme Court took the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to task Wednesday, unanimously voting to deny the department's claim for attorney fees incurred while defending a failed patent's appeal.
In an opinion written by Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor, the high court affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's ruling the department could not shift its fees to NantKwest, a Culver City, California biotechnology co...
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