the three documents related to the Patent and Trademark Office's Notice of Proposed Rule, draw at least one connection between the Noticed of Proposed Rule

1.Patterson and Thuente Comment:

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2.American Intellectual Property Law Association Comment

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3. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Notice of Proposed Rule from the Federal Register (pp.86518-86525)

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For example (you may not use this example in your post): In the Notice, PTO states "In 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified for patents subject to the 20-year patent term that a first patent that expires before a second patent to a common owner or inventor may be used as a reference in a nonstatutory double patenting rejection, regardless of whether the first patent is prior art to the second patent" (FR 86519, column 2). Citing to the Gilead case, shows the impact of common law on the regulatory process. The student could then make connections to chapter 4 of the textbook on common law and/or rulemaking in her/his analysis. As you can see, the focus of this assignment is not to master the subject matter of the rule, but to understand the rulemaking process.