Ann Slade

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a final rule on June 16, 2020, to revise how it calculates patent term adjustment.[1] But the USPTO’s PTA algorithm does not yet fully account for its final rule. Patent applicants may be entitled to additional or less PTA than what the USPTO has calculated and it is an applicant’s responsibility to seek PTA corrections. What Are PTAs?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a final rule on June 16, 2020, revising how it will calculate Patent Term Adjustment (PTA). However, the USPTO's PTA algorithm does not yet (as of March 2022) fully account for the final rule. Patent applicants may be entitled to additional PTA than what the USPTO has calculated. On June 16, 2020, and in response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision Supernus Pharm., Inc. v. Iancu, the USPTO published a final rule (85 Fed.