Patent law in Europe: What pharmaceutical companies need to know
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the vacatur of a jury verdict of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents and denial of infringement judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) where the patentee failed...more
In Jang v. Boston Scientific, the Circuit takes on the doctrine of ensnarement, affirming a district court’s grant of JMOL based on the patentee’s inability to develop a hypothetical claim that covered the accused stent but...more
This paper is based on reports on precedential patent cases decided by the Federal Circuit distributed by Peter Heuser on a weekly basis. ...more
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