Patent Office Director David J. Kappos ordered an unprecedented third reexamination of Leader’s patent to the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”), even after Facebook had failed on the same arguments four times previously. Kappos assigned a former IBM and Microsoft employee, Stephen C. Siu, as chief judge and staffed this PTAB kangaroo court with IBM, Xerox and Microsoft cronies—who had collectively issued over 169 patents to those companies. One of the staff attorneys, William J. Stoffel, even lists Facebook interests as conflicts (IBM, Fidelity, Vanguard). Fidelity and …
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