The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California invalidated several dietary supplement product and method patents as being directed to ineligible subject matter, even though they claimed products providing a...more
7/12/2017
/ Biotechnology ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Dietary Supplements ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Myriad-Mayo ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Product of Nature Doctrine ,
Section 101
On December 2, 2016, Judge O’Grady of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the USPTO’s motion to dismiss the complaint brought by Elm 3DS Innovations, LLC over the “holidays” declared December...more
12/28/2016
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Appeals ,
Dismissals ,
Electronic Filing ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Holidays ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Power Outages ,
Reviewability Determinations ,
USPTO
In a “Report and Recommendation on Defendants’ Joint Motion To Dismiss,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Cabell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts determined that TB test kit claims do not satisfy the patent...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware accepted Merck’s arguments that method of treatment patents asserted by BMS against its Keytruda product “touch[] upon a natural phenomenon” such that they should be...more
5/5/2016
/ Bristol-Myers Squibb ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Mayo v. Prometheus ,
Merck ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Presumption of Validity ,
SCOTUS ,
Treatment Method Patents
In Astornet Technologies, Inc. v. BAE Systems, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissed of actions for induced infringement where the alleged direct infringer was the U.S. government. In particular,...more
Judge Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted defendants’ motion to dismiss Genetic Technologies, Ltd.’s patent infringement suit with regard to claim 1 of U.S. Patent 5,612,179 on the basis that...more
In the June 21, 2013 Federal Circuit decision in Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, the court again reversed the district court’s finding that the claims at issue fail to satisfy § 101....more