Patent Office Defeats Ex-Examiner’s Race, Disability Bias Suit

A federal judge dismissed an ex-patent examiner’s discrimination case stemming from his rejection by the US Patent and Trademark Office where he was previously accused of violating the agency’s workplace violence policy.

Fenyang Stewart was fired in 2016 after “repeated incidents of unprofessional conduct, including a display of aggressive behavior toward a USPTO employee,” according to court filings. Stewart applied for his old job five years later and wasn’t rehired. He filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, that was later transferred to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming ...