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Transatlantic Terminology: Skilled Artisan Could Equate UK, US Word Meanings

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board unpatentability determination, finding that a skilled artisan would have found the term “sterile” in a UK publication to mean the same as...more

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Should the Experimental Use Exception Be Broadened?

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On June 28, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) requested the public’s views on the current state of the common law experimental use exception to patent infringement and whether legislative action...more

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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court | August 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Early Adoption of the Unified Patent Court

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened its doors on June 1, 2023. Nineteen actions were initiated during the first six weeks, across a range of subject areas and case values. It had been widely assumed that large companies...more

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An Interview with Rachel Goode, Ph.D, about Biological Patent Thickets

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Kevin DeJong (Senior Editor) and Shweta Kumar (Editor) from the Big Molecule Watch recently interviewed Rachel Goode, Ph.D. to discuss an article she recently co-authored, “Biological patent thickets and delayed access to...more

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The Court of Justice of the European Union provides clarifications on the assessment under competition law of pay-for-delay deals...

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On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a case concerning the long-standing...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad -- More Pain for Warner-Lambert and Their Pregabalin Patent

The long-awaited UK Supreme Court decision concerning Warner-Lambert's Lyrica® patent was handed down in December. In summary, the Supreme Court dismissed Warner-Lambert's appeal and upheld that the patent did not...more

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Second Medical Use Patents in Europe: Are UK and Germany Swapping Approaches?

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The UK Supreme Court's ruling in Warner Lambert v Actavis resulted from deliberations over the proper approach to matters relating to infringement of second medical use patent claims. The standard proposed by the UK Supreme...more

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UK Supreme Court Decision In Actavis V. Eli Lilly – Doctrine Of Equivalents Recognized

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In its decision of July 12, 2017 in Actavis v. Eli Lilly, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for the first time formally adopted the concept of a doctrine of equivalents when considering what constituted an infringement...more

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A Seismic Shift in UK Patent Infringement Law - Actavis v. Eli Lilly

In a decision that appears to have introduced a doctrine of equivalents for the first time, the UK Supreme Court has shifted the laws on patent infringement in Actavis v. Eli Lilly UK [2017] UKSC 48. While this case...more

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

Global Patent Prosecution Newsletter - September 2017

Worldwide Doctrine of Equivalents and Prosecution History Estoppel - The doctrine of equivalents (DOE) arises in the context of a patent infringement action where the accused product or process does not literally infringe...more

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Latest Developments in European Patent Law: How to Apply Them in Both the United States and Europe

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Agenda: • UK Supreme Court Decision on Infringement – “Equivalents” – Use of the prosecution history • Doctrine of Equivalents in the United States • Plausibility before the EPO and UK courts – Inventive step of...more

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UK Supreme Court Breathes New Life to the Doctrine of Equivalents

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In what is perhaps the most important development in English law of the last decade in this area of interpretation of patent claims and patent infringement, the UK Supreme Court gave new life to the doctrine of equivalents in...more

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Actavis v. Eli Lilly1: Back to the future - The UK Supreme Court changes the test for patent infringement

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The UK Supreme Court rarely hears patent cases, and will only hear cases that it considers to be fundamentally important. The court's July 12 judgment is most significant for changing the test for infringement in the United...more

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UK Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling in favour of Eli Lilly

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Following last Friday’s (7 July 2017) unusual move of advance publication of the outcome of the case, the UK Supreme Court now published the reasons for its decision in the long-running Actavis v Eli Lilly case. The reasons...more

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Hogan Lovells Successfully Acts for Eli Lilly in UK Supreme Court Patent Ruling

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In an unusual move, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has given its key conclusions in the long running Actavis v Eli Lilly case ahead of giving the full judgment. The UKSC allowed Eli Lilly’s appeal and held that Actavis’ products...more

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UK Court Invalidates AbbVie HUMIRA Patents

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On Friday March 3, 2016, in a decision in cases brought by Samsung Bioepsis UK Ltd. and Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co. Ltd., a U.K. court held invalid two European patents owned by Abbvie that purportedly cover Humira®...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo IP Newsletter - November 2016

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FDA (Finally!) Issues New Regulations to Clarify Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation: How to Use Patent “Use Codes” - October 6, 2016, the FDA issued a final rule implementing certain provisions of the Medicare...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Uncomfortable Intersection between the Practice of Medicine and Reality

The disconnect between patents and medicine (and more particularly, between physicians who prescribe patented drugs and the pharmaceutical companies who produce them) was illustrated nicely in a recent dustup between doctors...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad: Research Exemptions and Active Ingredient Manufacture

After a series of papers, reports and consultations on the scope of the research exemptions to patent infringement stretching over 10 years, section 60 of the Patents Act 1977 was finally amended on 1 October 2014 by the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Sudden Impact

I was once interviewed live on Bloomberg radio at some god-awful hour in the morning, following a 30% drop in the share price of Ely Lily resulting from a negative decision in a patent case by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the...more

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UK High Court confirms jurisdiction to grant cross-border declaration of non-infringement

In Actavis Group HF v. Eli Lilly & Co. the UK High Court has granted a declaration of non-infringement in the UK, France, Italy and Spain. A jurisdictional challenge in relation to the French, Italian and Spanish...more

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