United States Fourth Circuit

Plaintiff's action against the Patent and Trademark Office's advertising campaign to counter invention promotion scams is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/24/2005
• Decided 06/24/2005
• Published 06/24/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

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