Friday, April 9, 2021
Trump's standards czar makes unbelievably stupid statements in amicus brief supporting Ericsson against Samsung's Federal Circuit appeal of anti-antisuit injunction
Be warned that further below you're going to read about a couple of insults to human intelligence.
One week after Ericsson responded to Samsung's Federal Circuit appeal of an anti-antisuit injunction from the Eastern District of Texas, a former Trump Administration official was the first of what may be a long list of amici curiae ("friends of the court") supporting the Swedish failed handset maker against the Korean electronics giant (this post continues below the document):
Under President Trump, Dr. Copan was Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, which means he also served as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST joined the DOJ's Antitrust Division under Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and the USPTO under Andrei Iancu (who has, as I predicted, returned to the L.A. patent litigation firm of Irell & Manella, which typically represents NPEs) in replacing a really good and balanced policy statement on standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement with pro-patentee crap.