West Virginia College of Law professor  S. Sean Tu recently published a new opinion piece in JAMA. The article, titled  "Extent of Drug Patents With Terminal Disclaimers and Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Rejections," is co-authored by Professor Tu with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Bernard Chao, JD of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. It was published online by the journal on August 12, 2024.

The article discusses patent holders' responses to "obviousness-type double patenting rejections," the use of terminal disclaimers, and the impact on large portfolios of secondary patents or "patent thickets."

During July 2024, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 16,124 new full-text downloads of the 5,815 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 787 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 739,258.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,413 times in July 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Ann M. Eisenberg authored a new book, released in June 2024, titled "Reviving Rural America Toward Policies for Resilience." The book is published by Cambridge University Press.

West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently participated in a virtual panel discussion on patent reform and the affordability and accessibility of prescription drugs. The event was organized by the R Street Institute and held on July 24, 2024. Professor Tu was joined on the panel by Wayne Broug, R Street Institute, and Tahir Amin, Co-founder and CEO of Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge. The discussion was moderated by Canyon Brimhall, R Street Institute. 

Watch the panel discussion online now:    

West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new article in Nature Biotechnology. The article, titled "The cost of drug patent expiration date errors," analyzes the impact of errors in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s automated program to calculate patent expiration dates on drug prices. Professor Tu co-authored with work with Dinis Cheian, Sarah Gabriele, Benjamin N. Rome & Aaron S. Kesselheim. It was published online by the journal on July 17, 2024.

Find more of Professor Tu's scholarship on  SSRN.