Mealey's (January 20, 2023, 10:52 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two and a half years after Arthrex Inc. petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on a procedural issue over the appointment of administrative patent judges (APJs) to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the company filed a new petition for certiorari in the same patent infringement dispute, this time asking the high court to weigh in on a plan for temporarily filling vacancies within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) that the petitioner says violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA)....