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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Circuit Emphasizes Role of Filing Dates, Reversing Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Invalidation

In Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., No. 2024-1061 (Fed. Cir. August 13, 2024), the Federal Circuit reversed the District Court of Delaware’s invalidity determination of certain claims of U.S. Patent No....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Weighs in Again on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting to Limit In re Cellect and Preserve PTA for First-Filed,...

Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), a judicially-created ground of patent invalidity, has become the subject of intense interest after the Federal Circuit issued two decisions refining the application of the doctrine in...more

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

Cellect and Allergan: Obviousness-Type Double Patenting (ODP) in Reexamination and Reissue

Takeaways: 1. ODP in reexamination and reissue remains unpredictable despite Allergan 2. Patent Owners should carefully review ODP rejections to ensure they are proper Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is a legal...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

A Continuation Application is an Implicit Admission of Obviousness-Type Double Patenting When Filed from a Parent Patent

Filing a continuation application from a parent patent is an implicit admission that obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) applies to the resulting continuation patent. A Terminal Disclaimer in the continuation patent over...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Why Obviousness-type Double Patent Analysis Isn’t Obvious

Over the last seven years there has been commotion in Obviousness-type Double Patenting (“ODP”) practice. One of the latest cases to spur a considerable amount of interest is Mitsubishi Tanabe Corp. v. Sandoz, Inc., which is...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Whether Obviousness Type Double Patenting Can Be Used to Invalidate Patents That Expire Later Because of Patent Term Adjustment

We write to advise you on an issue currently before the Federal Circuit in a case of first impression, namely whether a later-filed, earlier-expiring patent can be used as a reference for obvious-type double patenting (OTDP)...more

WilmerHale

Important New Decision Regarding Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Challenge Between Patents from the Same Family

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On March 22, 2021, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey found a patent’s claims not invalid under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) in view of a reference patent from the same patent...more

Knobbe Martens

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

McDermott Will & Emery

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

Dechert LLP

Recent Federal Circuit Decisions on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting May Shape Life Science Patent Portfolio Management

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The Federal Circuit recently decided two appeals, Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC (“Ezra”) and Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Breckenridge Pharm. Inc. (“Breckenridge”) that both relate to the effect of obviousness-type double...more

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