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No Provisional Rights for Expired Patents

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by Dennis Crouch In a unique decision, the Federal Circuit has dismissed an appeal seeking to obtain a patent that would have issued after its expiration date. In re Forest, No. 2023-1178 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2025).   The dismissal on jurisdictional grounds holds that the would-be patent owner (here, the inventor) has no standing to appeal because any resulting patent would have no zero patent term.  (Note - I might have written "appears to hold" …
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No Provisional Rights for Expired Patents

by Dennis Crouch In a unique decision, the Federal Circuit has dismissed an appeal seeking to obtain a patent that would have issued after its expiration date. In re Forest, No. 2023-1178 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2025).   The dismissal on jurisdictional grounds holds that the would-be patent owner (here, the inventor) has no standing to appeal because any resulting patent would have no zero patent term.  (Note - I might have written "appears to hold" …

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