"The guidance does not require PTAB and TTAB judges to divest any financial interests like stocks or bonds, and it does not prohibit them from holding any financial interests."
"The memo comes on the heels of a case involving Centripetal Networks in which the Federal Circuit reversed a $2.75 billion damages award to Centripetal Networks after ruling that the district court judge should have disqualified himself over his wife's financial interest in Cisco, the defendant in the infringement action."
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