This week’s Federal Circuit decision confirms that term-adjusted patents can be invalidated by earlier-expiring patents in the same patent family under the obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) doctrine. This ruling is...more
On March 22, 2021, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey found a patent’s claims not invalid under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) in view of a reference patent from the same patent...more