In a widely-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday that the America Invents Act (AIA) did not change the scope of the on-sale bar to patentability. The unanimous decision, authored by Justice Thomas, held...more
Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys Justin Krieger and Nicki Kennedy recently spoke at the Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminars on the topic of “Helsinn v. Teva: The Status of Secret Prior Art and the On-Sale...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted Helsinn Healthcare S.A.’s certiorari petition to consider whether, under the America Invents Act (AIA), an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party that is obligated to keep...more
Helsinn v. Teva (Fed. Cir. 2017) -
On May 1, 2017, a Federal Circuit panel ruled that the AIA did not change the statutory meaning of “on sale” and that the on-sale bar can be triggered by a sale whose existence is...more