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IRONS v. DIAMOND

Nos. 80-2015, 81-2159.

670 F.2d 265 (1981)

Edward S. IRONS, Appellant, v. Sidney A. DIAMOND, Commissioner of Patents. Edward S. IRONS, Appellant, v. Sidney A. DIAMOND, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Helen Sears, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth and Kenneth M. Raisler, Asst. U. S. Attys., and Joseph S. Nakamura, Sol., U. S. Office of Patents and Trademarks, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before MacKINNON, MIKVA and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

This is "Round IV" of appellant's ten-year fight to secure access under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the unpublished manuscript decisions of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).1 In the order presently under review, the district court ordered the PTO to produce, from approximately 175 bound...

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