United States: The CCPA's Influence On Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Jurisprudence - Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Obviousness-type double patenting ("ODP") is a judicially-created doctrine intended to prevent the unjustified extension of the right to exclude granted by a patent. See In re Hubbell, 709 F.3d 1140, 1145 (Fed. Cir. 2013).