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PTAB Rehearing Limits Double Patenting Rejections of Earlier Patent Applications From Later-Filed Family Members
In Ex parte Baurin (Appeal 2024‑002920), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the examiner’s request for rehearing and reaffirmed its prior reversal of six nonstatutory obviousness‑type double patenting (ODP) rejections applied to US Application No. 17/135,529….
By: Cooley LLP