LegalForce RAPC Worldwide P.C. v. United States Patent & Trademark Office
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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10 LEGALFORCE RAPC WORLDWIDE
P.C.,
11 No. C 19-05935 WHA Plaintiff, 12
v.
13 ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY
UNITED STATES PATENT & JUDGMENT
14 TRADEMARK OFFICE, 15 Defendant.
16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 In this Freedom of Information Act case, defendant agency moves for summary judgment. 19 The Vaughn index does not adequately justify certain applications of Exemption 5, but plaintiff 20 does not challenge the adequacy of the agency’s search or its application of Exemptions 6 and 21 7. No genuine dispute of the agency’s withholding remaining, summary judgment is GRANTED. 22 STATEMENT 23 In May 2019, plaintiff LegalForce RAPC Worldwide P.C. filed FOIA request F-19-00197 24 with defendant United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) seeking records from an 25 investigation into one of plaintiff’s attorneys, Heather Sapp. In 2018, the PTO’s Office of 26 Enrollment and Discipline (OED)…