Academic

Field on Administrative IP Appointments

By Lawrence Solum

Thomas G. Field, Jr. (Franklin Pierce Law Center) has posted Limits to Administrative IP Appointments on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

This comment briefly explores the constitutionality of appointments to two adjudicatory boards within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as well as appointments to the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB). It offers alternative bases for finding that the PTO appointments satisfy the dictates of Freytag v. Commissioner, IRS. It also explains why appointments to the CRB clearly satisfy Freytag.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).