Janet Gongola is the Patent Reform Coordinator at the USPTO\u00a0responsible for\u00a0rolling out the new rules packages for the implementation of the AIA.\u00a0 If you subscribe to Hal Wegner’s daily email listserv, you may have seen him refer to her affectionately as the “Rules Czarina.”\u00a0 She was a former law clerk for retired Chief Judge Paul Michel and District Court Judge Sue Robinson.\u00a0 In addition, she served\u00a0as in-house counsel\u00a0at Eli Lilly back in my hometown of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
Ms. Gongola\u00a0was most recently with the solicitor’s office\u00a0at the USPTO and has argued frequently at the Federal Circuit.\u00a0\u00a0The oral argument in\u00a0In re Kubin, 561 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2009)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0between Ms. Gongola and Barbara Rudolph was a particularly memorable and impressive one (by both advocates).\u00a0 [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Janet Gongola is the Patent Reform Coordinator at the USPTO\u00a0responsible for\u00a0rolling out the new rules packages for the implementation of the AIA.\u00a0 If you subscribe to Hal Wegner’s daily email listserv, you may have seen him refer to her affectionately as the “Rules Czarina.”\u00a0 She was a former law clerk for retired Chief Judge Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936"}],"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=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}