{"id":8939,"date":"2017-05-12T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2017-05-12T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:33:30","slug":"hot-bench-in-re-chudik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8939","title":{"rendered":"Hot bench:  In re Chudik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of <em>In re Chudik<\/em> is interesting for several reasons. \u00a0The associate solicitor faced a bit of a hot bench from the Federal Circuit panel with questions coming from the get-go. \u00a0Judges Reyna and Stoll fired a lot of questions at the Associate Solicitor and even Judge Dyk had some questions challenging the Office&#8217;s rejection of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>The case is also interesting in that it deals with the language &#8220;arranged to&#8221; and whether the Office should interpret that language as structural or functional language.<\/p>\n<p>The oral argument is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016-1817.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s opinion is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1817.Opinion.3-23-2017.1.PDF\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of In re Chudik is interesting for several reasons. \u00a0The associate solicitor faced a bit of a hot bench from the Federal Circuit panel with questions coming from the get-go. \u00a0Judges Reyna and Stoll fired a lot of questions at the Associate Solicitor and even Judge Dyk had some questions challenging 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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939"}],"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=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}