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EXELIXIS, INC. v. KAPPOS

Case No. 1:12cv96.

906 F.Supp.2d 474 (2012)

EXELIXIS, INC., Plaintiff, v. Hon. David J. KAPPOS, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

As Amended November 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Houda Morad, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Julie Ann Edelstein, U.S. Attorney's Office, Alexandria, VA, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.

In the 1990's, Congress twice significantly altered the patent law landscape. First, in 1994, Congress enacted the Uruguay Round Agreements Act,1 which (i) required the term of a patent to be measured from the date of application, (ii) extended a patent term from 17 to 20 years, and (iii) created patent term adjustment ("PTA"), extending the length of a patent term in...

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