>The Postal Service then petitioned the Patent Office to review the patent, and the Patent Board agreed with the Postal Service that Return Mail's patent was ineligible to be patented, and it canceled the claims underlying the patent. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit then affirmed the Patent Board's findings and invalidated Return Mail's patent claims.
>In the most recent June 10 ruling, however, the Supreme Court said that a federal agency is not a "person" who may petition for post-issuance review under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' ruling and remanded the case for further proceedings.
This seems weird, so the postal service can't ask for a patent to be reviewed, but I can?
If the Postal Service can be at the mercy of some patent owner it should be able to ask for the patent to be reviewed.
>In the most recent June 10 ruling, however, the Supreme Court said that a federal agency is not a "person" who may petition for post-issuance review under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' ruling and remanded the case for further proceedings.
This seems weird, so the postal service can't ask for a patent to be reviewed, but I can?
If the Postal Service can be at the mercy of some patent owner it should be able to ask for the patent to be reviewed.