Patent Law

In The Weeds

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Rep. Howard Berman, Chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing the USPTO, does his job in an April 29 letter to PTO Director Jon Dudas, demanding answers: did you sully the agency's reputation by consorting with RIM when it was under the gun from NTP, and you had NTP patents under reexamination?; why haven't you considered deferred examination?; explain inconsistencies in patent application projection for the future; document methodology in meeting application demand; why so pig-headedly clueless about examiner attrition?; justify managerial lurching in its various incarnations. One surmises from such inquiries that, under Dudas' direction, the PTO hasn't exactly been on the path of probity.

Thanks to Hal Wegner, who thanked Greg Aharonian for the copy of Rep. Berman's letter.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).