Lemley, Mark A.; Reinecke, Jason - 2023
’t. Beginning in 2000, Congress provided certain “exceptions” to the twenty-year patent term, extending the life of patents to … compensate for excessive delays in patent prosecution or for successful appeals or certain other proceedings. This is called … “patent term adjustment” (PTA).Those exceptions have swallowed the rule. In this Article, we study all of the nearly 4 …