Yale Law Library - Reference Blog : Judicial Reform

Were patent appeals judges unconstitutionally appointed?

ct286 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:42:00 GMT

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have a major problem on its hands -- the possibly unconstitutional appointment of nearly two-thirds of its patent appeals judges. Read more about this case here.

Translogic Technology, a company whose patent was rejected, is raising this issue in a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. A copy of the petition is available for viewing at the Law Library Reference Desk.

Mexico's Senate Approves Judicial Reform

Tom Boone — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:53:00 GMT

Mexican senators on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence. The Senate voted 71 to 25 in favor of the measure, after a clause that would have let police search homes without warrants was deleted from it.

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Official Website of the Mexican Senate: http://www.senado.gob.mx/