The US Patent and Trademark Office beat a lawsuit accusing the agency of illegally withholding records about the delegation of director authority while the position was vacant.
The PTO conducted reasonable searches and “went above and beyond” in response to nonprofit US Inventor’s Freedom of Information Act requests for documents regarding the powers assigned to then-Patent Commissioner Andrew Hirshfeld and administrative patent judges in 2021, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a opinion published Feb. 16.
US Inventor, which has sued the PTO over FOIA requests at least one other time, failed to raise sufficient ...
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