{"id":10014,"date":"2018-09-07T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2018-09-09T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T02:27:20","slug":"why-didnt-you-walk-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10014","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you walk it back&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent decision of <em>In re Facebook<\/em>, the Federal Circuit reversed the Board&#8217;s rejection. \u00a0One has a clear sense from listening to the oral argument that the PTO is not going to prevail &#8212; and it did not prevail. \u00a0What is interesting to me is that Judge Moore asks the Solicitor&#8217;s Office during the oral argument why didn&#8217;t you &#8220;walk it back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10014-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524-Excerpt-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524-Excerpt-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524-Excerpt-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The implication in the question is that the Solicitor&#8217;s Office somehow has authority to challenge the decision of the Board. \u00a0That seems to be an unresolved issue &#8212; does the Solicitor&#8217;s Office of the PTO have the authority to challenge a Board decision of the PTO. \u00a0If so, where is that authority spelled out? \u00a0Personally, I think I would rather have the Federal Circuit have to deal with a few bad decisions by the Board, than frustrate the judicial independence of the Board by granting oversight authority to the Solicitor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10014-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524.mp3\">http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2017-2524.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion here: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=18190822607358066614&amp;q=moore+%22we+reverse%22+patent+office&amp;hl=en&amp;scisbd=2&amp;as_sdt=4,131&amp;as_ylo=2018\">[Link].<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent decision of In re Facebook, the Federal Circuit reversed the Board&#8217;s rejection. \u00a0One has a clear sense from listening to the oral argument that the PTO is not going to prevail &#8212; and it did not prevail. \u00a0What is interesting to me is that Judge Moore asks the Solicitor&#8217;s Office during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}