Supporting Codification of Double-Patent Doctrine for First-Inventor-to-File Patents

//Supporting Codification of Double-Patent Doctrine for First-Inventor-to-File Patents

Supporting Codification of Double-Patent Doctrine for First-Inventor-to-File Patents

Supporting Codification of Double-Patent Doctrine for First-Inventor-to-File Patents

RESOLVED, that IPO supports in principle codification of the Double-Patenting Doctrine for First-Inventor- to-File patents, such that an original inventor’s patent claims are not invalidated by that inventor’s later filed improvement patent claims.