Pfizer’s plea for extra 197 days of patent life rejected

25-01-2016

Pfizer’s plea for extra 197 days of patent life rejected

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rejected Pfizer’s plea to extend the term of a patent centring on cancer treatment, upholding a lower court’s ruling that cleared the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of wrongdoing.


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