The Supreme Court of Texas heard oral argument the other day in In re Andrew Silver, the patent agent privilege case. The issue has been characterized as follows:
“The issue in this mandamus to rescind a discovery order is whether Texas evidence rule 503 protects confidential communications between a patent applicant and his non-attorney patent agent authorized to practice law in federal patent proceedings.”
You can watch the video recording of the oral argument [here].
David Hricik wrote about the USPTO’s new patent agent privilege rule [here].