{"id":32,"date":"2008-05-17T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/patent-invalidity-is-hilarious\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T22:01:09","slug":"patent-invalidity-is-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/patent-invalidity-is-hilarious\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent invalidity is hilarious!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/all_decisions_o.html\">http:\/\/www.feld.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/all_decisions_o.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out all patent decisions since 2000 might be invalid. Patent judges have been appointed by an agency with no constitutional rights to do so. So, everything they&#8217;ve decided isn&#8217;t legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s going to be some bill passed by Congress to uphold these decisions. How many billions of dollars have traded hands since 2000 with respect to patent decisions?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, maybe this will be what finally gets them to revisit the sorry state of the patent system in the US.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin: 5px 0pt; width: 100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" id=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixie.png?x-id=eb4fe0de-c568-47a6-b1f8-88fa4fd592e4\" id=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at: http:\/\/www.feld.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/all_decisions_o.html Turns out all patent decisions since 2000 might be invalid. Patent judges have been appointed by an agency with no constitutional rights to do so. So, everything they&#8217;ve decided isn&#8217;t legally binding. There&#8217;s going to be some bill passed by Congress to uphold these decisions. How many billions of dollars have traded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/patent-invalidity-is-hilarious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patent invalidity is hilarious!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,55,52,54,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}