IT ABSOLUTELY MATTERS Michele Lee USPTO Director is the primary moving force behind the revolving door of JOINDERS. Simply put in her capacity she has demonstrated no compunction in "tossing the rule book out the door" and joining time barred Plaintiffs to associated partners. Her leaving is AWESOME for Patent Owners as it has become an established fact it cant get any worse than Michelle Lee.
US Code 35 315 (c)
(c) Joinder.-If the Director institutes an inter partes review, the Director, in his or her discretion, may join as a party to that inter partes review any person who properly files a petition under section 311 that the Director, after receiving a preliminary response under section 313 or the expiration of the time for filing such a response, determines warrants the institution of an inter partes review under section 314.
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