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Blurring the Line Between the Dry and Wet Lab: Joint Inventorship in AI-Assisted Life Science Inventions

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In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence ("AI"). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is the Nobel Prize in...more

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Acuitas File Complaint Against Alnylam for Declaratory Judgment of Co-Inventorship of Lipid Particle Patents

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Acuitas Therapeutics Inc. (“Acuitas”) filed a complaint (1-24-cv-00816) on July 12 against Alnylam Pharmaceutical Inc. (“Alnylam”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging incorrect inventorship of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Same Product in Different Packaging May Constitute Separate Market for Antitrust Purposes

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Addressing an issue of first impression, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concluded that two medications that contain the same ingredients but are packaged in different forms constitute separate markets for...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Horizon Medicines LLC v. Alkem Laboratories Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Joint inventorship has been called "one of the muddiest concepts in the muddy metaphysics of patent law" because the "exact parameters of what constitutes joint inventorship are quite difficult to define." Mueller Brass Co....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Drug Patent Invalid Due to Poor Quality Translation

In IBSA Institut Biochimique v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. a valuable lesson was learned about relying on a translation of a non-English patent application. The IBSA Institut Biochimique (IBSAIB) hired an Italian patent...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2020 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. v. Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Appeal No. 2019-2050 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2020) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed inventorship...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - February 2019

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Duncan Parking Techs., Inc. v. IPS Group, Inc. and IPS Group, Inc. v. Duncan Solutions, Inc. et al., Appeal Nos. 2018-1205, -1360 (Fed. Cir. January 31, 2019) - The Court this week provided a...more

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