The Federal Circuit has issued a unanimous precedential decision holding that a patent whose term was extended through Patent Term Adjustment (“PTA”) can be invalidated for obviousness-type double patenting (“ODP”), affirming the PTAB’s Ex Parte Cellect decision that we discussed in a previous post. The Court agreed with the PTAB that ODP should be assessed after PTA is applied to a patent, meaning that PTA does not protect a patent from ODP.
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