{"id":8541,"date":"2017-01-23T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8541"},"modified":"2017-01-23T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:37:09","slug":"weird-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8541","title":{"rendered":"Weird fact of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy listening to oral arguments that feature Judge Clevenger. \u00a0He is very smart, direct, and knows how to turn a phrase. \u00a0He often interjects a few idiomatic expressions into the oral arguments. \u00a0For example, I don&#8217;t know that he has ever said this one but it would be apropos: \u00a0<em>Mr. Solicitor, the combination of the two references that the PTO proposed is like putting socks on a rooster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Judge Clevenger&#8217;s exchanges with the PTO can be interesting; so, over the weekend I was trying to generate a playlist of past oral arguments. \u00a0This is where the weird fact of the day comes in. \u00a0To my surprise, there was a period between 2006 and 2008 where Judge Clevenger did not sit on any appeals arising out of the USPTO. \u00a0This is quite curious, as he did hear appeals from other cases. \u00a0At first, I suspected that he simply chose not to hear appeals from the USPTO once he took senior status in February of 2006. However, then I noticed that two other senior judges, Judges Archer and Plager, only heard one appeal each (directly from the USPTO) during that same three year interval. \u00a0A third senior judge, Judge Friedman, similarly heard only one patent appeal arising out of the USPTO, as well as one trademark appeal. \u00a0It is too bad, as it deprived the patent bar of some of the most experienced judges hearing appeals from the USPTO during that time period.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to double-check my work, I used Google Scholar, the judge&#8217;s last name in combination with &#8220;solicitor&#8221; and filtered by year. \u00a0Then, it was an easy process of eliminating inapplicable hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy listening to oral arguments that feature Judge Clevenger. \u00a0He is very smart, direct, and knows how to turn a phrase. \u00a0He often interjects a few idiomatic expressions into the oral arguments. \u00a0For example, I don&#8217;t know that he has ever said this one but it would be apropos: \u00a0Mr. Solicitor, the combination [&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\/8541"}],"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=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}