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Comment: USPTO says closely-watched patent case 'not sufficiently important' for Supreme Court review, but level of interest suggests otherwise

By Melissa Ritti ( August 22, 2024, 21:50 GMT | Comment) -- Concerns raised by Sanofi, Sonos, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and others who support a pending petition for US Supreme Court review are “misplaced,” US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal told the high court yesterday. In her defense of an August 2023 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on obviousness-type double patenting, Vidal says the “practical importance” of the question presented by Cellect LLC has been “vastly” overstated. Her view is hard to reconcile with the amount of interest the case continues to generate.US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal yesterday told the US Supreme Court it should deny review of an August 2023 decision which one amicus curiae said “destroyed” the ability of companies to known when their patents will expire and another said renders patent term adjustment, or PTA, a “poison pill.”...

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