{"id":111489,"date":"2025-03-21T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/21\/commerce-secretary-abruptly-dismisses-uspto-advisory-committees-surprising-members-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:20:09","slug":"commerce-secretary-abruptly-dismisses-uspto-advisory-committees-surprising-members-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/21\/commerce-secretary-abruptly-dismisses-uspto-advisory-committees-surprising-members-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce Secretary Abruptly Dismisses USPTO Advisory Committees, Surprising Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an unprecedented move, the Commerce Department abruptly dismissed all members of two citizen panels that advise the USPTO on patent and trademark matters. Members, all of whom were appointed during the Biden administration, said the emailed notice caught them by surprise.<\/p>\n

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In an unprecedented move, the Commerce Department abruptly dismissed all members of two citizen panels that advise the USPTO on patent and trademark matters. Members, all of whom were appointed during the Biden administration, said the emailed notice caught them by surprise.<\/p>\n

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In an unprecedented move, the Commerce Department abruptly dismissed all members of two citizen panels that advise the USPTO on patent and trademark matters. Members, all of whom were appointed during the Biden administration, said the emailed notice caught them by surprise. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In an unprecedented move, the Commerce Department abruptly dismissed all members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-ofJRRc.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}