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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: FDA Filing Can Create Personal Jurisdiction; “Compelling” Arguments that Reverse Doctrine of...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - STEUBEN FOODS, INC. v. SHIBUYA HOPPMANN CORPORATION [OPINION] (2023-1790, 1/24/2025) (Moore, Hughes, Cunningham) - Moore, Chief J. The Court reversed the district...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

In Hatch-Waxman litigation, Federal Circuit restricts venue under the TC Heartland to districts relating to ANDA filings

On November 5, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Valeant Pharmaceuticals N. Am. LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 19-2402, resolved a split among district courts over what constitutes...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (November 2-6): Limits on Venue in Hatch-Waxman Cases

Last week was argument week at the Federal Circuit, which as usual meant the Court issued several Rule 36 affirmances and short non-precedential decisions. But tucked in between those was at least one case—a Hatch-Waxman...more

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Somewhat remarkably, there is no settled Federal Circuit precedent regarding where a patentee can bring suit against a generic competitor in Hatch-Waxman litigation under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2).  While recognizing that this...more

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Federal Circuit Narrows Venue for Patent Infringement Suits Under the Hatch-Waxman Act

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The Federal Circuit Thursday issued a decision that narrows the venue options available to patent owners bringing suit against generic drug manufacturers under the Hatch-Waxman Act. In a unanimous decision, the court held...more

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EDTX & NDTX Monthly Wrap-Up – April 2019

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A Tale of Two ANDAs: Jurisdiction and Venue in a Non-Traditional Sense - Judge Gilstrap’s recent opinion in Apicore US LLC v. Beloteca, Inc., No. 2:19-CV-00077-JRG, 2019 WL 1746079 (E.D. Tex. Apr. 18, 2019), highlights...more

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Dueling Declaratory Judgment Suits Result in a Dismissal and Boomerang Transfer Back to the First-filed Forum Under TC Heartland

On April 17, 2019, Judge Gilstrap of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in Apicore v. Beloteca, No. 19-cv-00077, held that while the court could exercise personal jurisdiction over a 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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Federal Circuit Review - June 2018

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A Complaint Identifying Infringing Products and the Patents Allegedly Infringed, Accompanied by Statements that the Products Meet All Elements of at Least One Claim of the Asserted Patents, May be Sufficient to Meet the...more

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Delaware Court Applies Acorda “Acts of Infringement” Definition to Post-TC Heartland Venue Analysis

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Addressing a motion to dismiss for improper venue following TC Heartland, a Delaware district court held that an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) filer that intends to market an allegedly infringing drug in a certain...more

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Recent Court Decisions on Venue Challenges Following TC Heartland

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware recently handed down two important decisions on motions to transfer for improper venue. Judge Stark presided over both cases, transferring one case and ordering further...more

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Hatch-Waxman Venue Update: Will SCOTUS Limit Where Brands Can Sue Generics?

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Generic and branded pharma companies alike are waiting with baited breath to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of personal jurisdiction in Hatch-Waxman patent cases this term. After a broad ruling from the...more

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Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Hospira, Inc.

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Case Name: Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Hospira, Inc., Civil No. 15-2077 (MLC), 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45826 (D.N.J. Apr. 5, 2016) (Cooper, J.) - Drug Product and Patents-in-Suit: Aloxi® (palonosetron); U.S. Patents Nos....more

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ANDA Update - Volume 2, Number 2

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180-Day Notice Period for Biosimilar Approval Is Always Mandatory and Enforceable by Injunction - Amgen Inc., v. Apotex Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2016) - A year after analyzing the patent dance and notice...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Full Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Review of Jurisdictional Decision with Important Implications for BPCIA Litigation

On June 20, 2016, the full Federal Circuit denied Mylan’s petitions for rehearing en banc in Acorda Therapeutics Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., 817 F.3d 755 (Fed. Cir. 2016), leaving intact the panel’s decision affirming two...more

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ANDA Update - October 2015

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Federal Circuit Interprets Statutory Requirements for Biosimilar Regulatory Pathway - Amgen Inc., v. Sandoz Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 21, 2015): In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...more

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Update on Personal Jurisdiction for BPCIA Litigants after the Supreme Court’s decision in Daimler

Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e), filing an Abbreviated Biologics License Application (aBLA)—like filing an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA)— can be an act of patent infringement resulting in ‘artificial’ injury to a patentee....more

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Case Dismissed For Lack Of Personal Jurisdiction And Transferred.

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This is an ANDA case relating to the drug oxycodone. Defendant has its principal place of business in Massachusetts. It incorporated in Delaware in 2002 and thereafter in 2014 in Virginia. The court finds that it does not...more

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Lessons in Personal Jurisdiction for BPCIA Litigants after the Supreme Court’s decision in Daimler

An emerging issue in Hatch-Waxman litigation – and potentially under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) – is the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct.746 (2014), on...more

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Court Denies Generic Drug Manufacturer’s Motion to Dismiss Hatch-Waxman Patent Infringement Action on Jurisdiction Grounds

On March 12, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana joined the District of Delaware and Eastern District of Texas as the first courts to consider a generic drug manufacturer’s motion to dismiss...more

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Hatch-Waxman Watch: Personal Jurisdiction Edition

Is the ability to obtain personal jurisdiction against an ANDA filer for a Hatch-Waxman-type litigation going to become exceedingly more difficult? In the past, jurisdiction against such a defendant was often predicated on...more

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