Fixing Double Patenting: The Procrustean Solution?

by Dennis Crouch

I recently provided a set of interesting data on the large number of patents that are "at risk" of being invalidated based on the Federal Circuit's Cellect decision. This post follows up with a discussion of a recent article titled "Fixing Double Patenting" released in draft form by Stanford Professors Mark Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette. The article takes a critical look at the practice of obviousness-type double patenting in the U.S. patent system.


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