Prolific Applicant’s Patent Office Suit Tossed Over His Delays

A federal judge ended Gilbert Hyatt’s 19-year-old legal battle against the US Patent and Trademark Office, saying he had no choice based on a Federal Circuit ruling and the Nevada man’s delay of the reviews of hundreds of applications.

“To be clear, the Court takes no pleasure in this result,” Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote a 102-page opinion issued Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The patent office “has shown to this Court’s satisfaction that Mr. Hyatt unreasonably and inexcusably delayed” the filing of his applications and “engaged in prosecution conduct that constituted a clear ...