By now, you are aware that the USPTO released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on May 10, 2024, that would dramatically alter patent applicant and patentee statutory rights in their patent filings by proposing a draconian change to the requirements for submission of a terminal disclaimer.
In an IPWatchDog post of September 6, 2022, Anthony Prosser and I traced the history of the doctrine of “Non-Statutory Judicially Created Obviousness-Type Double Patenting” (ODP). We confirmed (as its name indicates) that no Congressional statute has ever codified this doctrine.
POLICE are appealing for dashcam footage following two aggravated burglaries which targeted elderly men. The incidents, which occurred in Chorley and Leyland, saw two elderly men targeted in their homes, leaving them shaken and scared. The first of the incidents took place at around 8am on Balshaw Road in Leyland, when four men purporting to be workmen went to the home of a man aged in his 80s. When he declined their offer of work they went round to the back of his house and smashed their way through a window. Members of the group then made their way into the address and hit the man to the head with a metal bar but he has thankfully now made a full recovery.