 Patent Law Weblog By Kevin E. Noonan -- An argument could be made that one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in U.S. patent law in the last thirty years was Dickinson v. Zurko. In that case the Court held that the Federal Circuit was bound by the provisions (5 U.S.C. ยง 706) of the Administrative Procedures Act to defer to factual determinations made by administrative agencies within the area of their expertise. (It should be understood that the Supreme Court's more recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo did not disturb this statutory standard, being limited to agency interpretations of... 
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