United States Federal Circuit

A decision excluding plaintiff from practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is affirmed since the USPTO has statutory authority to so exclude plaintiff based on his disbarment in other jurisdictions, and the statute of limitations did not preclude his exclusion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/25/2006
• Published 09/25/2006

Judges

• LOURIE, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and RADER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sol Sheinbein, of Falls Church, VA, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Whealan, Solicitor, Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Arlington, VA, for defendant-appellee.   With him on the brief were Thomas L. Stoll, Linda M. Isacson, and Sydney O. Johnson, Jr., Associate Solicitors.