Arti K. Rai

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Arti K. Rai is an American legal intellectual and former public official. She is currently the Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke Law School. She was previously a member of the Presidential transition of Barack Obama and subsequently served in the Department of Commerce as a Patent Office advisor. During the early 2000s, Rai was one of the leading academic advocates of patent reform, particularly the creation of a robust post-grant opposition system for U.S. patents.

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Education and early career

Rai received an A.B. in biochemistry and history from Harvard College in 1987 and spent a year as a student at Harvard Medical School. She graduated in 1991 from Harvard Law School, where her team won top honors at the prestigious Ames Moot Court Competition. Her classmates in law school included future president Barack Obama and future Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch. After graduation, Rai clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Following private practice at the firm of Jenner & Block and service as the trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, she entered academia.

Public service

As a member of the Obama-Biden transition, Rai was part of the team reviewing and science and technology issues, [1] particularly in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After the confirmation of David Kappos as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, Rai served as the agency's chief policy advisor until 2010.[ citation needed ]

She has served as a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, [2] and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. [3]

Patent reform

Professor Rai argued for the creation of post-grant opposition system for U.S. patents, with greater attention to principles of administrative law than the patent system has historically shown. [4] In 2011, Congress enacted much of the post-grant opposition reform agenda into the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

In the mid-2000s, Rai was also one of the leading proponents of a set of controversial Patent Office regulations that would have constrained the use of continuation practice in U.S. patent examination. The regulations were challenged as being outside the legal authority of the Patent Office, [5] and were ultimately withdrawn while the case appeal was pending. [6]

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  1. ↑ "School buds: 20 Harvard classmates advising Obama | Home Is Where The Heart Dwells". blogs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  2. ↑ "Administrative Conference Appoints New Members | Administrative Conference of the United States". www.acus.gov. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. ↑ Institute, The American Law. "The American Law Institute Elects 40 New Members | American Law Institute". American Law Institute. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  4. ↑ Benjamin, Stuart Minor; Rai, Arti K. (2010-03-31). "Who's Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative Law". Rochester, NY. SSRN   897307.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ "Tafas V. Doll — Round II: 1 Down, 3 To Go - Law360". www.law360.com. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  6. ↑ "Tafas v. Kappos: Cleaning Up". Patently-O. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
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