LegalForce RAPC Worldwide P.C. v. United States Patent & Trademark Office

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LEGALFORCE RAPC WORLDWIDE

P.C.,

No. C 19-05935 WHA Plaintiff,

v.

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY

UNITED STATES PATENT & JUDGMENT

TRADEMARK OFFICE, Defendant.

16 INTRODUCTION In this Freedom of Information Act case, defendant agency moves for summary judgment. The Vaughn index does not adequately justify certain applications of Exemption 5, but plaintiff does not challenge the adequacy of the agency’s search or its application of Exemptions 6 and 7. No genuine dispute of the agency’s withholding remaining, summary judgment is GRANTED. STATEMENT In May 2019, plaintiff LegalForce RAPC Worldwide P.C. filed FOIA request F-19-00197 with defendant United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) seeking records from an investigation into one of plaintiff’s attorneys, Heather Sapp. In 2018, the PTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED)…