{"id":21715,"date":"2017-09-26T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=21715"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:40:21","slug":"uspto-restriction-practice-terminal-disclaimers-patent-term-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/uspto-restriction-practice-terminal-disclaimers-patent-term-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"USPTO on Restriction Practice, Terminal Disclaimers, and Patent Term Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restriction requirement practice has assumed a new importance since the Federal Circuit decision in\u00a0<i>Gilead v. Natco<\/i>\u00a0three years ago, which found that a later-issuing but earlier-expiring patent could serve as an obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) reference. A restriction requirement lets a patent examiner categorize a patent application as containing multiple inventions and then restrict examination to just a &#8220;single&#8221; invention. Our panelists &#8212; an expert from the USPTO&#8217;s Office of Patent Legal Administration and two veteran and savvy patent prosecutors &#8212; will analyze the opportunities and pitfalls for patent prosecutors raised by restriction requirements, discussing such topics as:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>After a restriction requirement, how can a patent applicant make sure that the subsequent application falls into the section 121 &#8220;safe harbor,&#8221; while also garnering the longest protection through patent term adjustment?;<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean for claims in a new application to be &#8220;consonant&#8221; with those withdrawn from the earlier case?;<\/li>\n<li>The new amendment to the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure that describes when a terminal disclaimer can be withdrawn; and<\/li>\n<li>Lessons learned from cases such as\u00a0<i>Hagenbuch v. Sonrai<\/i>\u00a0(E.D. Ill. 2016) on the potential danger of filing an ill-worded terminal disclaimer, and\u00a0<i>Janssen v. Celltrion<\/i>\u00a0(D. Mass. 2016) on serious consequences from filing a continuation instead of a divisional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Kathleen Fonda,\u00a0<i>USPTO<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Hohenshell,\u00a0<i>Medtronic, Inc.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kevin Noonan,\u00a0<i>McDonnell Hulbert Berghoff &amp; Boehnen LLP<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restriction requirement practice has assumed a new importance since the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>USPTO on Restriction Practice, Terminal Disclaimers, and Patent Term Adjustment - 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