Google Alerts brought me this: https://www.law360.com/articles/1064060/fed-circ-backs-uspto-nix-of-cold-fusion-patent-apps
Fed. Circ. Backs USPTO Nix Of Cold Fusion Patent Apps By *Tiffany Hu <https://www.law360.com/search/articles?q=reporter:%22Tiffany%20Hu%22>* Law360 (July 17, 2018, 7:46 PM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Virginia federal judge’s rejection of a suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by a man who claims to have invented cold fusion, a hypothetical type of room-temperature nuclear reaction that most scientists believe is impossible, finding that the lower court did not err in dismissing his challenge. In a seven-page nonprecedential decision, the panel upheld U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema’s decision in August to dismiss Dr. Mitchell R. Swartz’s suit against the USPTO for alleged misconduct... [That is all I can read without a subscription.]
