Blacklight Power, Inc. v. James E. Rogan, Director, Patent and Trademark Office

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• affirming that USPTO officials reasonably acted within their authority when withdrawing a patent from issuance in order to fulfill the USPTO’s mission to issue only valid patents
• considering it the “responsibility, and the mission of the PTO . . . to assure that patents are properly examined, and valid” (citing 35 U.S.C. § 151 and Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134, 139–40 (1944)
• “Correct statutory interpretation is that which is most harmonious with [the statutory] scheme .... ” (internal quotation omitted)

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