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Category: Patent Reform

New Patent Rules Blocked by an 11th Hour Injunction

By Vincent J. Allen

On the day before the new continuation rules discussed in our previous newsletter were to go into effect, a federal judge in Virginia issued an injunction against the Patent Office that prevented the Patent Office from changing the rules on November 1, 2007 as scheduled.  GlaxoSmithKline filed suit in Virginia claiming that the new regulations are vague, arbitrary, and capricious.

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