The US Supreme Court will not review the US Patent and Trademark Office’s practice of allowing an administrative tribunal to decide whether to begin a patent validity proceeding, dashing an Amazon competitor’s hopes of undermining unfavorable patent decisions against it.
The high court declined to take up the case Monday without explaining its reasoning, as is customary.
In doing so, the justices seemingly saved for another day an issue left open after last year’s US v. Arthrex Inc. ruling, which held that the PTO’s director must have the authority to assess final decisions in Patent Trial and Appeal Board “inter …
