En Banc Denied in In re Cellect: Double Patenting and Patent Term Adjustment

by Dennis Crouch

The Federal Circuit has denied Cellect's en banc petition on the interplay between obviousness-type-double-patenting and patent-term-adjustment.  The situation here is creating some strategic challenges for patentees with large patent families. 


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