SawStop Denied Term Extension on Patents by Federal Circuit

SawStop Holding LLC can’t get the term of its patents extended after an appeal of an administrative tribunal’s finding that axed some of the patents’ claims, the Federal Circuit ruled.

An error in the examination of the patents and a subsequent appeal of the rejection of some claims to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board doesn’t satisfy a requirement to extend a patent’s term, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion. There must be a substantive change in a decision reviewing patentability for the US Patent and Trademark Office to make a ...