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Later-Filed, Earlier-Expiring Patent Not an ODP Reference

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Addressing invalidity due to obvious-type double patenting (ODP) based on later-filed-related patents, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s application of In re Cellect (Fed. Cir. 2023)...more

MoFo Life Sciences

The PTAB Axes Skin Treatment Patent Under Amgen

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently invalidated a University of Massachusetts (“UMass”) patent related to the treatment of the skin disease vitiligo in a post-grant review. (See Forte Biosciences Inc v....more

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5 Key Takeaways | Rolling with the Legal Punches: Resetting Patent Strategy to Address Changes in the Law

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Kilpatrick partners Tina McKeon, Michael Bertelson, and Michael Turton recently joined Laura Fritts (Vice President, Intellectual Property, Legal, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) to present at the annual Kilpatrick...more

McDermott Will & Emery

For Statutory Equivalents, Even One Means May Be Enough

A US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) appeals review panel decided that a means-plus-function (M+F) claim element supported by the disclosure of only a single species is not invalid for indefiniteness or lack of written...more

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Written Description for Genus Claims Following Juno Therapeutics v. Kite Pharmaceuticals

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Section 112 of the Patent Act contains multiple requirements that relate to the adequacy of an inventor’s disclosure within a patent application.  The Supreme Court has offered some clarity to inventors seeking to patent...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Finds Written Description Support for Narrow Claim Range via Disclosure of Broader Ranges, Vacates PTAB Decision

The Federal Circuit recently vacated a PTAB decision that claims of an “e-cigarette” patent were unpatentable for lack of written description under 35 U.S.C. § 112. The question on appeal was whether a claimed range was...more

Smart & Biggar

Regulation to amend mainly the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business: key takeaways from a recent discussion...

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On January 10, 2024, the Regulation to amend mainly the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (the “Draft Regulation”) was published in the Gazette officielle du Québec. The Draft Regulation was eagerly...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Encourage Juror Note-Taking (and Take Notes Yourselves)

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: In our increasingly digital world, the idea of taking notes the old-fashioned way with paper and pen can feel quaint. Yet, many of us still do it. For those jurors who are permitted to take notes, they...more

Gardner Law

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Issues FY2023 Annual Report

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In January 2024, the Office of Compliance at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation Research (CDER) released its Annual Report for FY2023. The Annual Report contains several useful pieces of information for drug companies and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Keep Calm and Party On: New Issue Prohibition Doesn’t Apply to Motions to Amend

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board obviousness determination, explaining that inter partes review (IPR) statutory provisions that prohibit an otherwise time-barred party...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

PureCircle USA Inc. v. SweeGen, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)

Not surprisingly, the Federal Circuit visited upon Plaintiff/Appellant PureCircle two of the Four Horsemen of the Biotech Patent Apocalypse* in a decision affirming the District Court's invalidation of the claims asserted...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Va. Supreme Court lets teacher's "pronoun" lawsuit go forward

The teacher had a religious objection. The Virginia Supreme Court yesterday found in favor of a West Point public school teacher whose employment was terminated because he would not address a transgender student by the...more

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Institution Denied Based On Written Description in “Alternative Embodiments”

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On September 21, 2023, the PTAB denied United Services Automobile Association’s petition to institute inter partes review of Auto Telematics’s U.S. Patent No. 9,633,487.  IPR2023-00519, Paper 10....more

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[Ongoing Program] Life Sciences Series - Current Trends in ANDA Litigation - October 31st, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

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We are excited to announce Venable’s inaugural Life Sciences Webinar Series. This month-long series will explore the intricacies and latest developments that shape the life sciences industry. Join us as we hear from our...more

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How To Write Meta Descriptions for your Law Firm Website

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The meta description is a snippet of up to about 160 characters, which summarizes a page’s content. Meta descriptions don’t appear on the page itself, but only in the page’s source code. Search engines such as Google often...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Federal Circuit Will Not Read Safety and Efficacy Limitations into Pharma Method Claims

On July 24, in United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc., the Federal Circuit addressed whether safety and efficacy are required for pharmaceutical method claims to be sufficiently enabled and supported...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Holy Pulmonary Hypertension, Batman: Method of Treatment Not Constrained by Safety and Efficacy

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s holding that the asserted method of treatment patent was valid and infringed because safety and efficacy are not patent concerns. The Federal Circuit...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 2022-1269, 2022-1270 (Fed. Cir. Jun. 12, 2023)

This case concerns determining the prior art status of certain references in an inter partes review. The Federal Circuit considered whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) was correct in declining to consider...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2023 #4

United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-2217, 2023-1021 (Fed. Cir. July 24, 2023) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent case this week, the Court considered questions...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Courts Must Analyze Claims as a Whole to Determine Whether Independent Claims That Lack Written Description Preclude Assertion of...

The District Court for the District of New Jersey recently denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment which sought to invalidate a dependent claim on preclusion grounds based on the PTAB’s invalidation of the related...more

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Enablement Enigma: The Supreme Court Weighs In

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In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Amgen’s broad genus claims to cholesterol-lowering antibodies are invalid for lack of enablement....more

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First Rule of the PTAB? Play by the Rules

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed two Patent Trial & Appeal Board decisions holding the challenged claims unpatentable as obvious, even though the Board declined to consider evidence of antedating and...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 14th Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics - June 27th - 28th, Boston, MA

Biologics have become the fastest-growing class of therapeutic compounds. They have provided innovative treatment alternatives for people who suffer from some of the most serious medical conditions known to man. The...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

5 Takeaways from the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Amgen v. Sanofi

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (referred to as the Amgen decision) likely makes it more difficult for life sciences companies to obtain broad patents claiming an entire genus of antibodies...more

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Supreme Court Affirms Federal Circuit's Decision in Amagen Inc. v. Sanofi & Provides A Reminder of the Fundamental Bargain of...

Friday the U.S. Supreme Court issued its anticipated ruling in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi and affirmed the Federal Circuit's prior decision that Amgen's patent was invalid for lack of enablement. A copy of the Court's Opinion is...more

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