Case Name: Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd., 2013-1418, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 7494 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 22, 2014) (Circuit Judges Rader, Prost, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.; Dissent by Rader, C.J.) (appeal from...more
Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd. - Addressing invalidation of a patent for obviousness-type double patenting, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a district court’s...more
The Federal Circuit extended the scope of the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) in a split decision rendered in Gilead Sciences Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd. In doing so, the panel majority...more