期刊名称:Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
印刷版ISSN:1559-9493
出版年度:2019
卷号:18
期号:2
页码:53
出版社:Chicago-Kent College of Law
摘要:In his first term, Justice Neil Gorsuch has made a surprisingly forceful impact on, of all things, patent law—and even more unlikely, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s adjudicatory arm, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Was there any way to predict, from his 10th Circuit opinions below, that he would author opinions in all three patent cases in his first term? Was this attention the result of deeply submerged but long-felt opinions on patent law, or rather a result of his sharp distrust of administrative overreach? We analyze 10th Circuit and Supreme Court opinions authored by Justice Gorsuch, and conclude his unforeseen interest springs from his desire to limit agency power rather than from any particular concern with patents. Still, his opinions—intentionally or by happenstance—will reverberate through our patent law for years.
关键词:Neil Gorsuch; PTAB; SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu