Mohsenzadeh v. Lee, No. 14-1499 (Fed. Cir. June 25, 2015)

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Hossein Mohsenzadeh appeals the district court’s en- try of summary judgment in favor of the government on the issue of whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) properly calculated patent term adjustments for two patents th at issued from divisional applications. Because we find that the district court did not err in affirming the PTO’s denial of Mohsenzadeh’s requests for patent term adjustments, we affirm. I. BACKGROUND A. PATENT TERM ADJUSTMENTS The patent term adjustment statute, 35 U.S.C.