Top US patent judge resigns following “ethical breach”

Small world -- the attorney the judge was complementing was none other than Ed Reines, the Newegg attorney we're always reading about who fights off the trolls.

So that email is an ethical breach, but not...

Reuters published a profile of Rader last year, explaining how the judge gave up to 100 speeches a year, many of them abroad, "extolling the American patent system that his court oversees."

I assume his expenses were covered. Are judges allowed to take speaking fees?