On August 26, 2024, Regeneron filed a BPCIA complaint in the District Court for the District of New Jersey against Sandoz Inc. related to Sandoz’s ENVEEZU (aflibercept-abzv)....more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has denied Amgen’s motion to consolidate a recently filed action against Pfizer and its affiliate Hospira relating to Hospira’s filgrastim biosimilar with an ongoing...more
It's often said that hard cases make bad law. And that is what had happened here: faced with an unreasonable number of potentially asserted claims in litigation, and a Plaintiff not required to identify which of those...more
Needless to say, a finding of exceptionality under 35 U.S.C. § 285 can have crippling consequences. Just ask Rembrandt Technologies, LP, which recently was slapped with an order to pay the prevailing defendants in a...more
On March 28, 2013, Beacon Navigation GmbH (“Plaintiff”) brought suit against General Motors, LLC (“Defendant”) alleging that the Defendant infringed United States Patent Nos. 6,360,167 and 5,878,368 (collectively, “the...more
Case Name: Beacon Navigation GmbH v. Ford Motor Company - Docket Number: 2:13-cv-11381-PJD-MAR - Date Filed: 3/28/2013 - Judge: Hon. Victoria A. Roberts - Status: Stayed 01/07/2016 - On March 28, 2013, Beacon...more
Addressing the issue of the utility of consolidating an inter partes review (IPR) with an ex parte reexamination proceeding, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) denied a...more
The America Invents Act introduced a new statute, 35 U.S.C. § 299, which provides that “accused infringers may not be joined in one action as defendants or counterclaim defendants, or have their actions consolidated for...more
Canon Inc. v. Print-Rite N.A., Inc., et al. Case Number: 1:14-cv-00540-DLC (Dkt. 16) - Judge Cote ordered eleven cases filed by Canon are now consolidated....more