USPTO Appeals Review Panel Reaffirms Broad Reach of Double Patenting Doctrine
In a recent sua sponte rehearing decision from the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Appeals Review Panel (ARP), it reversed an earlier Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision and held that obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) may remain a concern even when a challenged patent would expire before the patent used as the OTDP reference.
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