"This year, the Federal Circuit will decide whether a judge-made-doctrine can truncate a legislative grant of patent term adjustment....In doing so it could craft a bright-line rule that a judge-made doctrine cannot cut off a statutorily authorized time extension."Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) was designed to serve an important purpose - to compensate patentees for time lost during examination due to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) delays.
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