{"id":7783,"date":"2016-03-19T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2016-03-19T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:22:48","slug":"overuse-of-printed-matter-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"Overuse of &#8220;printed matter&#8221; doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The associate solicitor for the USPTO ran into a buzz saw in the form of Judges Taranto and Hughes in the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In re Distefano<\/span>. \u00a0The USPTO was fortunate as Chief Judge Prost opted to write the opinion for the court in this case. \u00a0She was the least vocal during the oral argument in criticizing the PTO and the opinion was somewhat tame compared to the oral argument.<\/p>\n<p>As one example of the criticism, Judge Hughes remarked during the oral argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I mean you\u2019re really asking us to let you be lazy.<span> <\/span>I don\u2019t mean to be mean about it, but this is the third printed matter case I\u2019ve seen from you all and I\u2019ve only been here two years.<span> <\/span>And, they\u2019ve all involved instances like this where the Board is trying to fix a sloppy examiner\u2019s rejection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can listen to that comment here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-1453-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-1453.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can read the opinion here [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/15-1453.Opinion.12-15-2015.1.PDF\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The associate solicitor for the USPTO ran into a buzz saw in the form of Judges Taranto and Hughes in the oral argument of In re Distefano. \u00a0The USPTO was fortunate as Chief Judge Prost opted to write the opinion for the court in this case. \u00a0She was the least vocal during the oral argument [&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\/7783"}],"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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}