By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a final rule in the Federal Register (85 Fed. Reg. 36335), in which the Office set forth revisions to the rules of practice concerning Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in view of the Federal Circuit’s decision in Supernus Pharm., Inc. v. Iancu. The final rule implements revisions that were previously discussed in a notice of proposed rulemaking published by the Office in May 2019 (see “USPTO Proposes Revisions to PTA Rules in View of Supernus v. Iancu”). With respect to the PTA rules being changed, the Office is…
