Justice Thomas is the wisest sitting Jurist on the SCOTUS.
It will be a sad day in the History of our Nation when he Retires or Passes away.
He is the only one of those nine who does exactly what an Associate SCOTUS Justice is supposed to do, adhere to the original intent of the Constitution of the United States in writing his Opinions.
Admittedly I don’t know enough about this particular Case to comment. If Justice Thomas strayed that far from our Constitution in his Opinion on this Case I would be shocked.
I will leave it to wiser FReepers to dissect this Ruling.
Thomas is an expert in patent law and often authors the majority opinions on the subject. I defer to Thomas.
Sounds to me that Thomas called it the way he saw it. He may be right from a Constitutional point of view, and maybe saw it as the purview of the Administrator to delegate rulings. From my personal perspective, not having enough ability to review or appeal rulings internally at the USPTO would be an error and bad for the national interest.
IANAL so maybe I am reading this wrong.