Barrett's Textualist Focus Offers Few Clues on IP Approach
Troutman Pepper attorneys Maia Harris and Gwendolyn Tawresey were quoted in an October 1, 2020 Law360 article titled, “ Barrett's Textualist Focus Offers Few Clues on IP Approach.”
Troutman Pepper partner Maia Harris said she'd expect that Judge Barrett would lean toward limiting agency discretion and authority — namely at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and U.S. International
Trade Commission — but the mixed backdrop of these cases makes it hard to tell.
Gwendolyn Tawresey, a Troutman Pepper associate, added that "the interesting pieces of IP law are that they bring in a lot of issues of administrative agency, as well as the personal property rights versus public rights, all
of which implicate constitutional questions."