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2024 Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2024 Decisions

2024 brought exciting developments at the Federal Circuit. The court issued its first en banc decision in a patent case in five years in LKQ, which significantly altered the standard for proving obviousness of a design...more

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A Later-Filed, Later-Expiring Unrelated Patent is Not a Proper Reference Patent for an Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Rejection

The recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision Ex Parte Baurin reversed an Examiner rejection for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) in U.S. Application No. 17/135,529 over the later-filed, later-expiring...more

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Cellect and Allergan: Obviousness-Type Double Patenting (ODP) in Reexamination and Reissue

Takeaways: 1. ODP in reexamination and reissue remains unpredictable despite Allergan 2. Patent Owners should carefully review ODP rejections to ensure they are proper Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is a legal...more

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Patent Term Adjustment and ODP: USPTO Defends Federal Circuit's Cellect Decision

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In December 2021, patent practice was upended by four related United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions holding that patents subject to statutory Patent Term Adjustment...more

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In Re Cellect: What’s The Issue and What to Expect

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What Congress has guaranteed, the courts have taken away - The Supreme Court is about to receive a Petition for Certiorari in a case that impacts how long a patent protects new inventions, we expect. Specifically, the case...more

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Federal Circuit Puts Patent Term Adjustment On The Chopping Block

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In In re Cellect, the Federal Circuit effectively held that Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) awarded under 35 USC § 154 is not protected from obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) in view of a patent with the same 20-year...more

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USPTO Announces Director Review For Ex Parte Appeals

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In a bulletin issued July 24, 2022, focused on Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions in AIA trials, the USPTO also announced the creation of “a new Appeals Review Panel (ARP), which may be convened...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions: Best Medical Int’l, Inc. v. Elekta Inc., 46 F.4th...

Varian filed two petitions for IPR of BMI’s ’096 patent, which the Board instituted. Elekta filed copycat petitions and successfully joined Varian’s two instituted IPRs. A previously filed, parallel ex parte reexamination on...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Paragraph IV Disputes Conference - November 9th - 10th, New York, NY

Join the conference that the “who’s who” of Hatch-Waxman litigators have designated as the forum which sets the standards for Paragraph IV practice. ACI’s Paragraph IV Litigation Conference is returning LIVE & IN-PERSON to...more

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