WASHINGTON( NYTIMES)-The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday( June 21) that more than 250 administrative judges who hear patent disputes, some of them over billions of dollars, had been appointed in violation of the US Constitution. The solution, a fractured majority of the court ruled, was to give the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office the power to review the judges' decisions in cases brought under a 2011 law that made it easier to challenge questionable patents. Supporters of the pro