{"id":1724,"date":"2017-08-31T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2017-09-02T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T01:23:38","slug":"federal-circuit-to-rethink-whether-an-applicant-has-to-pay-the-usptos-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit to Rethink Whether an Applicant has to Pay the USPTO&#8217;s Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1794.Order.8-30-2017.1.PDF\">Nantkwest, Inc. v. Matal<\/a>, [2016-1794](August 31, 2017) the Federal Circuit <em>sua sponte<\/em> granted rehearing <em>en banc<\/em> of the panel decision discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1614\">here<\/a>\u00a0on the issue of whether\u00a035 U.S.C. \u00a7 145\u2019s \u201c[a]ll the expenses of the\u00a0proceedings\u201d provision authorizes an award of the\u00a0United States Patent and Trademark Office\u2019s attorneys\u2019\u00a0fees?<\/p>\n<p>Not part of this review is its most unfair aspect &#8212; that a successful applicant still must pay the USPTO&#8217;s &#8220;expenses&#8221; (whatever that means).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nantkwest, Inc. v. Matal, [2016-1794](August 31, 2017) the Federal Circuit sua sponte granted rehearing en banc of the panel decision discussed here\u00a0on the issue of whether\u00a035 U.S.C. \u00a7 145\u2019s \u201c[a]ll the expenses of the\u00a0proceedings\u201d provision authorizes an award of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorneys-fees"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}