The IPO is reporting that on Thursday March 17, 2005 at 3:30 p.m., the House IP subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Holmes Group, the Federal Circuit and the State of
The IP Subcommittee is chaired by Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas. The ranking Democrat is Howard Berman of California.
My sense is that Congress intended the Federal Circuit to handle all patent cases, and just made a technical error in drafting the statute (hence the Scalia opinion). If the various circuits do hear patent cases, I would be greatly in favor of applying Federal Circuit law as precedential.
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