Feb 16, 2018 · Under the USPTO’s rules, filing a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) stops that PTA clock, but in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...

Feb 13, 2018 · Under the USPTO’s rules, filing a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) stops that PTA clock, but in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...

Nov 13, 2012 · In University of Massachusetts v. Kappos, the United States District Court for the District of Colombia held that an Office Action that was “fundamentally flawed” still stopped the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) clock that was running against the USPTO under 35 …

Sep 25, 2019 · In Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. v. Iancu , the Federal Circuit agreed with the USPTO’s Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) calculation that charged a deduction for “applicant delay” for time after the applicant filed a first response to a final Office Action.

Nov 8, 2012 · Judge Ellis recently sided with the patentee Exelixis in ruling that the PTO improperly under-calculated the patent term adjustment due to the patentee. The focus of the case is how the filing of a request for continued examination (RCE) impacts any eventual patent term adjustment (PTA).

Jan 14, 2015 · In other words, filing an RCE in reply to a Notice of Allowance tolls the running of the B-Delay clock and creates applicant delay, resulting in PTA loss, between the date of the notice of allowance and the date of the RCE filing.

Those decisions basically held that "once the three year clock has run, PTA is to be awarded on a day for day basis regardless of subsequent events." The PTO has argued that an RCE stops the running of the PTA clock.

Feb 13, 2018 · Under the USPTO’s rules, filing a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) stops that PTA clock, but in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that the clock should keep running when the USPTO mishandles an RCE. So, exactly when does an RCE stop the PTA clock?

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