Addressing for the first time how patent term adjustments (PTAs) interact with obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that when members of a ...

Canada has implemented a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) system to account for unreasonable delays by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) in issuing a patent. The PTA system effectively ...

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A new study published in Drug Delivery Today finds that patent term restoration (PTR) substantially prolongs the marketing exclusivity period for top-selling drugs by extending patents by a median of ...

“The United States, having implemented patent term adjustment in 1999, has witnessed various high-stakes litigations on the USPTO’s interpretation of the term adjustment provisions. Therefore, ...

The United States is the only country in the world where the judiciary forces patent term truncation over unrelated patent ...

Attorneys explain what stakeholders should know about Patent Term Adjustments in Brazil, more than three years after a landmark Brazilian Supreme Court ruling Since a 2021 Brazilian Supreme Court ...

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Chen Shihua of DEQI Intellectual Property Law Corporation explains China's patent term compensation system, which includes a patent term adjustment for delays and a patent term extension for ...