United States Fourth Circuit

The Patent and Trademark Office's advertising campaign, launched in connection with its duty to publicize complaints concerning invention promoters, was not a "final agency action" under the Administrative Procedure Act. Thus the case must be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2004
• Published 02/11/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Edward B. Friedman, Friedman & Friedman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellant.  Rachel Celia Ballow, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  J. Stephen Purcupile, Carolyn M. Corry, Friedman & Friedman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;  Richard C. Sullivan, Jr., Reed Smith, L.L.P., Falls Church, Virginia, for Appellant.  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.