Assertion: president's secretary | /r/CapableOf | permit the secretary
Facets:
value: to appoint those persons
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In order to avoid the crisis that would result from new challenges to many BPAI and TTAB decisions made in that period, Congress passed a 2008 amendment to the statute which specifies that the Secretary of Commerce is responsible for such appointments, and permitting the Secretary to retroactively appoint those persons named by the USPTO Director.