ACS' patent term extension request is currently under review by the PTO with cooperation from FDA (see sidebar, “ Obtaining Patent Term Extensions ”). Because the ‘233 patent was set to expire on ...

Nearly a year after the Federal Circuit set the record straight on calculating the length of patent extensions, the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is including that decision in a final rule that ...

David Kappos is much in demand as a defendant. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has already achieved IP immortality in Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that preserves ...