Friday Foreign Filing Roundup

Hello, readers and Happy 4th of July.  Here are the IP updates for this past week:

• The Obama administration is set to appoint a new USPTO director, Phil Johnson, a pharmaceutical industry executive.
• Speaking of the USPTO, the permanent location for the USPTO Rocky Mountain Regional Office opened in Denver, Colorado. 
• Judge Lucy Koh recently banned the use of certain pejorative terms in a patent suit, including the names “patent troll”, “pirate” and “bandit”. 
• The Supreme Court recently dealt a huge blow to software patents, here is a good summary of the ruling. 

See you next week and have a fantastic holiday weekend!!!