{"id":11399,"date":"2021-01-20T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:01:53","slug":"query","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"Query"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assuming the hypothetical situation that PTAB judges are not principal officers and they are not currently being overseen by a principal officer &#8212; because Director Iancu has resigned his post &#8212; should forthcoming PTAB decisions be considered valid, until a new Director\/principal officer is confirmed by the Senate?  After all, some argue that PTAB judges are inferior officers because a Director purportedly supervises them and a Director is a principal officer.  What about when there is no Director\/principal officer to supervise the PTAB judges?  You might recall that there was an extended vacancy in the USPTO Director position between the terms of David Kappos and Michele Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming the hypothetical situation that PTAB judges are not principal officers and they are not currently being overseen by a principal officer &#8212; because Director Iancu has resigned his post &#8212; should forthcoming PTAB decisions be considered valid, until a new Director\/principal officer is confirmed by the Senate? After all, some argue that PTAB judges [&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\/11399"}],"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=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}