The Statute Bars Affirmances Without Opinion
Patent – Patently-O 2017-02-02
Summary:
by Dennis Crouch This follows up on yesterday’s post on my new draft article “Wrongly Affirmed Without Opinion.” The basic argument in the paper is that both the Patent Act and the Lanham Acts require the Federal Circuit to provide an opinion when issuing a judgment on an appeal from the Patent & Trademark Office (PTO).[1] In […]