Legal Opinion
Hyatt v. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 28, 2018No. Civil Action No. 18-234 (RCL)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge
Before the Court is an action under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, challenging the withholding of a single email message by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"). The email at-issue was sent by one PTO patent examiner to another using PTO's email system, in reply to the receiving examiner's initial email concerning a patent applicant, plaintiff Gilbert P. Hyatt, whose patent applications the two examiners were (and perhaps still are) responsible for examining. The PTO nevertheless denied Mr. Hyatt's…
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