Former USPTO heads part ways on eBay, PAEs in inputs to European Commission
By Melissa Ritti ( May 15, 2026, 17:29 GMT | Comment) -- Former US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal on Tuesday broke with the pro-injunction stance taken by fellow former agency heads Andrei Iancu and David Kappos in lobbying directed at the European Commission. In a letter viewed by MLex, she argued Brussels should instead preserve its balanced, case-specific approach to relief in patent cases.In a letter to the European Commission's vice president for industry and internal market, Stéphane Séjourné, former US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal this week pushed back on recent warnings by the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) that adopting aspects of the US Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling in eBay v. MercExchange could weaken innovation in Europe....
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