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- 2025TRISTAR PRODUCTS INC v. TELEBRANDS CORPORATION N.D. Fla.
- 2025Mattco Industrial Products, LLC v. LTA Distributing, LLC D. Del.
- 2025Acuitas Therapeutics Inc. v. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. D. Del.
- 2024SIPCO LLC v. Jasco Products Company LLC W.D. Okla.
- 2023In Re CELLECT, LLC Fed. Cir.
- 2023DRIT LP v. Glaxo Group Limited Del. Super. Ct.
- 2023MyPort, Inc. v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. E.D. Tex.
- 2022Best Medical International, Inc. v. Elekta Inc. Fed. Cir.
- 2022DRIT LP v. Glaxo Group Limited D. Del.
- 2021Glaxo Group Limited v. DRIT LP Del.
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Whenever a claim of a patent is invalid the remaining claims shall not thereby be rendered invalid. A patentee, whether of the whole or any sectional interest therein, may, on payment of the fee required by law, make disclaimer of any complete claim, stating therein the extent of his interest in such patent. Such disclaimer shall be in writing, and recorded in the Patent and Trademark Office; and it shall thereafter be considered as part of the original patent to the extent of the interest possessed by the disclaimant and by those claiming under him. In the manner set forth in subsection (a), any patentee or applicant may disclaim or dedicate to the public the entire term, or any terminal part of the term, of the patent granted or to be granted. (Source: (July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 809; Pub. L. 93–596, § 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949; Pub. L. 112–29, § 20(e), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 334.))