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Who Gets the Patent When AI Is the Inventor?

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Artificial intelligence is transforming drug design — but it could also disrupt intellectual property law. To realize AI’s full promise, the US may have to reconsider its approach to issuing patents....more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Is the Tide Turning on Chemical Patent Challenges at the PTAB?

The so-called “Lead Compound Analysis” is the primary legal framework for assessing chemical obviousness. Despite the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) initial apparent reluctance to operate under this framework,...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril. The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Claim Construction Of An Enantiomeric Chemical Structure

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In Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. V. Emcure Pharm. Ltd., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision that construed a chemical structure as reading on the lurasidone enantiomer that is the active ingredient of...more

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Federal Circuit Provides Guidance for Stereochemistry Claim Construction

On April 16, 2018 in a precedential opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma v. Emcure Pharms., Nos. 2017-1798, -1799, -1800, affirmed the United States District Court for...more

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Prior Art Chemical Structures Must Be More Than A “Code Name”

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The PTAB recently rejected a request for rehearing by Bayer CropScience LP (“Bayer”). Bayer Cropscience LP, v. Syngenta Limited, IPR2017-01332, Paper 15 (P.T.A.B. Apr. 2, 2018). The PTAB stated that when the prior art does...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Wyeth v. Abbott Laboratories (Fed. Cir. 2013)

When is it undue experimentation in practicing the full scope of a claim that contains a genus of chemical compounds and a functional limitation of activity, when the specification provides a method to assess the claimed...more

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