{"id":3341,"date":"2010-11-10T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2010-11-10T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T03:50:04","slug":"patent-attorneys-presumed-guilty-until-proven-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Patent Attorneys &#8212; Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.gwu.edu\/Faculty\/profile.aspx?id=14159\">John Whealan<\/a>, former USPTO Solicitor, and now Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies at\u00a0George Washington University argued on behalf of Therasense, Inc.\u00a0 and Abbott Labs in the <em>en banc<\/em> oral argument yesterday in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.<\/span>\u00a0 The comment that I think will resonate with registered patent attorneys is the following: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2008-1511_1192010-therasense-excerpt.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 Since the Federal Circuit began making the recordings of oral arguments available on its web site in 2006, this is the first time that I&#8217;ve ever heard an advocate make the argument that patent attorneys are honest people . . . it is\u00a0refreshing to finally\u00a0hear someone point this out to the Federal Circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whealan, former USPTO Solicitor, and now Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies at\u00a0George Washington University argued on behalf of Therasense, Inc.\u00a0 and Abbott Labs in the en banc oral argument yesterday in Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.\u00a0 The comment that I think will resonate with registered patent attorneys is the following: [Listen].\u00a0 [&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\/3341"}],"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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}