McKool Smith principals James Quigley and Scott Hejny recently published "A Question of Authority - The Federal Circuit's Criticism of the POP in Windy City" in Texas Lawyer. The article discusses how "the Federal Circuit recently dealt a blow to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and, in particular, to the POP opinion process that has been frequently used over the past year to establish precedent for post-grant review proceedings." Read the entire article here.