New Developments in Obviousness-Type Double Patenting and Original Patent Requirements — Patents: Post-Grant Podcast
Inter Partes Review: Validity Before the PTAB
The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) claim construction (and inter partes review (IPR) decision invalidating claims for obviousness) in it recent Genentech, Inc. v. Iancu decision, and also...more
On December 6, 2019, the Federal Circuit will hear oral argument in a rituximab-related appeal by Biogen. The appeal stems from a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review...more
The PTAB held that all of Genentech’s challenged antibody purification claims were unpatentable as being anticipated, obvious, or both, in an IPR filed by Hospira and Pfizer, Hospira, Inc., v. Genentech, Inc., IPR2016-01837,...more
It has been four years since the first inter partes review proceedings were filed in the United States. The first IPR petition, filed on September 16, 2012 (the first day IPRs became available), made it all the way to the...more
About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each week we will report on recent developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Amerigen Pharmaceuticals Limited v. UCB Pharma GmbH - PTAB Petition: IPR2016-01665;...more
About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each week we will report on recent developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Illumina, Inc. v. Scripps Research Institute - PTAB Petition: IPR2016-01619; filed...more
In July of 2015, Sanofi filed petition for an inter partes review (IPR2015-01624) for 15 claims of U.S. Pat. No. 6,331,415 (“Cabilly II”). In the antibody field, the Cabilly family of patents is well known and is believed to...more