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Obviousness-type double patenting in the Age of the Twenty-Year Term and Patent Term Adjustment

Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) attempts to prevent the term of a “reference patent” claiming an obvious variant of a parent patent to exceed the term of the parent. This fulfills the mandate of the patent statute of “one patent per … Continue reading

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