Senate Judiciary Committee Nomination Hearing - ORIGINAL/NO EDITS - December 1, 2021

Описание: On December 1, 2021, the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Judiciary Committee Chair Durbin presiding, held a nomination hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building for the nominees below.

OPENING STATEMENTS
0:00:00 - Hearing comes to order
0:36:21 - Leonard Philip Stark, to be US Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit
1:07:29 - Victoria Marie Calvert, to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia
1:09:33 - Jacqueline Scott Corley, to be US District Judge for the Northern District of California
1:11:28 - Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty, to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia
1:13:37 - Dale E. Ho, to be US District Judge for the Southern District of New York
1:15:22 - Katherine Vidal, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of the USPTO
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1:28:19 - Grassley asks Vidal on which policies she would keep and change, e.g. 101 guidelines
1:30:27 - Leahy asks Vidal on abuse of USPTO and the pharmaceutical industry
1:33:01 - Leahy asks Vidal on PTAB institution denials and district court trial dates
1:58:10 - Tillis asks Vidal on efforts to bring clarity to patent eligibility (101)
1:59:30 - Tillis asks Vidal on field technology requirements for eligibility
2:00:06 - Tillis asks Vidal on support to continue PTAB reforms
2:01:09 - Tillis asks Vidal on support to review current Fintiv factors and trial scheduling
2:07:47 - Klobuchar asks Vidal on how PTO can prevent well-financed companies from abusing post-grant review process to increase costs and delay on small innovators
2:15:49 - Coons asks Vidal on joint USPTO-NIST policy on SEPs and international engagement
2:19:26 - Coons asks Vidal on eligibility and Fintiv
2:24:57 - Hirono asks Vidal on underrepresented inventors, IDEA Act, and patent bar diversity


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