Ex parte Baurin and the Anti-Harassment Rationale for Double Patenting
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USPTO designates as precedential an Appeals Review Panel decision addressing obviousness-type double patenting
Patent Trial and Appeal Board USPTO designates as precedential an Appeals Review Panel decision addressing obviousness-type double patenting Ex parte Baurin, Appeal 2024-002920 (ARP Aug. 6, 2026) (precedential) In this decision, an Appeals Review Pa…
Ex parte Baurin and the Anti-Harassment Rationale for Double Patenting
by Dennis Crouch Director John Squires has issued another precedential decision, this time focusing on obviousness-type double patenting (ODP). In Ex parte Baurin, Appeal No. 2024-002920 (ARP Aug. 6, 2026), an Appeals Review Panel led by Director Squires (joined by Chief Administrative Patent Judge Deshpande and Acting Deputy Chief Judge Ankenbrand) reversed the Board and reinstated six ODP rejections of Sanofi antibody claims. The panel held th…
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