Huntington v. United States Department of Commerce

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JAMES E.'BOASBERG, United States District Judge

An attorney in the field, Plaintiff R. Danny Huntington seeks information about a defunct confidential program of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which is housed in the Department of Commerce. This program - the Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS)— was used to flag certain patent applications as involving particularly sensitive subject matter. To gain insight into the SAWS Program, Plaintiff filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests with Commerce and subsequently brought this suit. After a previous round…