Thank Godfrey for Small Favors: Federal Circuit Upholds Continuation Filing Deadline in Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp.
Aug 2nd, 2016 by Jessica Miles | News | Recent News & Articles |
Interestingly, the court unearthed an 1864 Supreme Court decision, Godfrey v. Eames, 68 U.S. 317 (1864), for the origin of same-day continuations and the idea of copendency. The court opined that the intent of the drafters of the 1952 Patent Act was to codify the longstanding practice of following Godfrey’s rule