Partner George E. Quillin was quoted in the Thomson Reuters Westlaw IP article, “Supreme Court’s appointments clause ruling will keep PTAB intact, lawyers predict” about oral arguments in the closely-watched U.S. Supreme Court patent case, United States / Smith & Nephew v. Arthrex.
Quillin told Thomson Reuters: “A decision with the least immediate impact would be one in which the Court agrees with the government and Smith & Nephew that Administrative Patent Judges (APJ) have been inferior officers all along. Hence, there would be no need to for a judicial fix to anything.”