This is the first of a two part series discussing various techniques that take advantage of opportunities in a prosecution history to rebut/preclude disadvantageous implications that often tend to arise in patent litigation. These techniques tend to yield prosecution histories that are more difficult to assail while also providing future litigators asserting the patent with…
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Strategies To Maximize Patent Term Extensions
The following is a discussion of patent term extensions; both how they are triggered and how they are offset. Also presented are strategies that minimize offsets to extensions. Introduction Patent term adjustments can be significant to an applicant because they extend the term of a patent. Consequently, they can serve to legally extend patent licenses,…