{"id":11674,"date":"2021-09-28T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:33:20","slug":"do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11674","title":{"rendered":"Do as we say, not as we do."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is kind of interesting to compare the recent statement in <em>Trust ID v. Next Caller<\/em> by the Federal Circuit &#8212; an intermediate appellate court, rather than a court of last resort &#8212; with the Federal Circuit&#8217;s Rule 36 practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201c[T]he Board is obligated to provide an administrative record showing the evidence on which the findings are based, accompanied by the agency\u2019s reasoning in reaching its conclusions.\u201d\u00a0<em>Alacritech, Inc. v. Intel Corp.<\/em>, 966 F.3d 1367, 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2020) (quoting\u00a0<em>TQ Delta, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc.<\/em>, 942 F.3d 1352, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2019)). \u201cWe do not require \u2018perfect explanations,\u2019 and \u2018we will uphold a decision of less than ideal clarity if the agency\u2019s path may reasonably be discerned.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<em>Id.\u00a0<\/em>at 1370\u201371 (quoting\u00a0<em>NuVasive<\/em>, 842 F.3d at 1382\u201383). \u201cWe do, however, require that the Board\u2019s own explanation be sufficient \u2018for us to see that the agency has done its job.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<em>Id.\u00a0<\/em>(quoting\u00a0<em>NuVasive<\/em>, 842 F.3d at 1383). Here, the Board merely partially reiterated and summarily rejected Next Caller\u2019s arguments without explanation. This is not sufficient under the APA and our precedent.\u00a0<em>NuVasive<\/em>, 842 F.3d at 1383 (explaining that the Board cannot \u201csummarize and reject arguments without explaining why [it] accepts the prevailing argument.\u201d). Thus, while there is no legal basis to require that the Board have deferred to the examiner\u2019s reasoning, the Board did need to have provided its own reasoning.<\/p><cite>TrustID, Inc. v. Next Caller, Inc., 2020-1950 (Fed. Cir. September 27, 2021)(slip op. at 18).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is kind of interesting to compare the recent statement in Trust ID v. Next Caller by the Federal Circuit &#8212; an intermediate appellate court, rather than a court of last resort &#8212; with the Federal Circuit&#8217;s Rule 36 practice. \u201c[T]he Board is obligated to provide an administrative record showing the evidence on which 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\/11674"}],"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=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}