Legal Opinion

Edward S. Irons v. Sidney A. Diamond, Commissioner of Patents. Edward S. Irons v. Sidney A. Diamond, Commissioner of Patents

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided December 18, 1981No. 80-2015, 81-2159PublishedCited by 72 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

This is “Round IV” of appellant’s ten-year fight to secure access under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the unpublished manuscript decisions of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). 1 In the order presently under review, the district court ordered the PTO to produce, from approximately 175 bound volumes of decisions covering the years 1853-1954, all unpublished manuscript decisions relating to granted patent applications upon the prepayment of a reasonable search fee of an undetermined amount. The district court also dismissed the remainder of appellant’s…

2Cases cited7 opinions

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Edward S. Irons v. Robert Gottschalk, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
Mary Helen Sears v. Robert Gottschalk, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1974

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