Biden Taps PTO Associate Solicitor for Court of Federal Claims

President Joe Biden plans to nominate US Patent and Trademark Office Associate Solicitor Molly Silfen to serve on the federal court that hears claims for money damages against the federal government.

If confirmed by the Senate, Silfen would join the Court of Federal Claims, which weighs a range of cases that can include patent and trademark infringement allegations.

The US, for example, recently told a federal court in Delaware that the government should have been the target of some patent infringement claims that biopharmaceutical companies brought against Moderna Inc. over its Covid-19 vaccine, and that the Court of Federal Claims ...