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McDermott Will & Emery

The End Is Not So Near: Patent Term Adjustments Count in Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Determinations

Addressing for the first time how patent term adjustments (PTAs) interact with obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that when members of a patent family have...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Federal Circuit Holds That Claims of a Patent Asserted During a Patent Term Extension Are Not Infringed by the Carboxylic Acid...

Recently, the Federal Circuit issued its holding in a case dealing with asserting claims of an extended patent covering administration of dimethyl fumarate formulations to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). Dimethyl fumarate...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Biogen Int'l v. Banner Life Sciences LLC (Fed. Cir. 2020)

In 1984, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) shepherded a grand legislative compromise through Congress that balanced the rights and solved inefficient regulatory consequences for both branded and generic...more

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Federal Circuit Review - January 2019

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A Post-URAA Patent that Issues After but Expires Before a Related Pre-URAA Patent Is Not a Double-Patenting Reference Against the Pre-URAA Patent - In Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc.,...more

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Obviousness-Type Double Patenting: It’s Complicated

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In two recent decisions, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that an asserted patent was not invalid due to obviousness-type double patenting (1) when a patent filed post-Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994...more

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Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC

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Federal Circuit Summary - Before Moore, Chen, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Obviousness-type double patenting does not invalidate an otherwise validly...more

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Rx IP Update - April 2018

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Standing Committee on Health proposes National Pharmacare program, modifications to prescription and generic drug pricing - While common among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...more

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Rx IP Update - February 2018

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Federal Court of Appeal dismisses Teva’s levofloxacin damages appeal - On February 8, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal issued public reasons for its decision dismissing Teva’s appeal relating to the damages and costs...more

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The Medicines Company v. Hospira (Fed. Cir. 2015)

There have been many voices raised in recent years against the patent system for a variety of political, policy, or personal reasons. Indeed, there is even a book entitled Don't File a Patent that sets out the authors'...more

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