‘Rigged’ Patent Board Allegations Have High Bar, Attorneys Say

A recent district court order punts concerns about an administrative patent tribunal’s alleged bias to the Federal Circuit amid greater scrutiny of the patent office.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit provides an adequate remedy in the event there’s any improper bias among judges at Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a district court judge for the Western District of Tennessee found earlier this week. The order came in response to an inventor who alleged the US Patent and Trademark Office is “rigged” to favor big tech companies, and followed the release of a federal watchdog report that ...