The USPTO yesterday rescinded its controversial rules that the Federal Circuit ruled on earlier this year. The USPTO's announcement also indicates that it will file a motion in the pending appeal to dismiss and vacate the district court's rulings. That's great news for most patent applicants and a promising, significant step for Kappos.
Law360 reports that David Kappos, who President Obama and Gary Locke have nominated to head the USPTO, will implement various changes at the USPTO, including an overhaul of the "count" metric that the USPTO uses to evaluate and incentivize patent examiners.
Some other changes he may implement are summarized in his IPReview articles I wrote about earlier.
Sister blog ChipLawBlog reports that IBM's David Kappos has been nominated to be the new Commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office. Several commentators reported about a month ago that he was being considered, including IPWatchdog, Dennis Crouch, and others.
ChipLawBlog summarized some points Mr. Kappos made during his testimony on patent reform. As he awaits Senate confirmation, it may be interesting to consider these additional points he made when he summarized IBM's patent strategy in an IPReview article published in February, 2007:
If Mr. Kappos helped to craft this strategy for IBM, it may be an indication of the patent policy he could strive to implement.
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