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McCarter & English, LLP

The Patents Are Coming! The Patents Are Coming!—USPTO Reduces Time to Issue Patents

Under the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) modernization efforts, the time between paying the issue fee and issuance of the patent is being reduced. Faster patent issuance gives patent applicants less time...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Weighs in Again on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting to Limit In re Cellect and Preserve PTA for First-Filed,...

Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), a judicially-created ground of patent invalidity, has become the subject of intense interest after the Federal Circuit issued two decisions refining the application of the doctrine in...more

Sunstein LLP

The USPTO Giveth and Taketh Away

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According to statute, if prosecution of a patent application is delayed due to the fault of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), additional term is added to the life of the patent when it issues. This is...more

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