Double Patenting

Double Patenting

Definition

One source of double patenting law is found in 35 U.S.C. § 101, which states that an inventor “may obtain a patent.” The second source is referred to as “obviousness type” double patenting which is a judicially-created doctrine that prohibits a later patent claim that is an obvious variation of an earlier patent claim.

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