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4 Key Takeaways | Recent Changes with Respect to the New Administration

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Kilpatrick’s Kris Doyle, David Reed, Kate Klein, and Ditty Shrivastava recently presented at the annual Kilpatrick Intellectual Property Seminar Series on the topic of “Recent Changes with Respect to the New Administration.”...more

A&O Shearman

Navigating the UPC’s evidence minefield: when confidentiality issues clash with procedural deadlines

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In July 2024, the UPC Court of Appeal (CoA) clarified its procedural rules surrounding evidence preservation and confidentiality. It confirmed that the deadline for bringing an action on the merits only starts to run after...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Drug Litigation Overview and Trends

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The recent uptick and rise in popularity of GLP-1 drugs for addressing weight loss and obesity has led to an increase in U.S. litigation involving this class of drugs. Over the past few years, litigation has focused on a wide...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tax Bytes: Week of March 24, 2025

Tax developments - Actavis and deductible expenses - On March 21, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released a decision in Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. United States, holding that taxpayers could...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit’s Lashify Decision Expands “Domestic Industry” at the International Trade Commission

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Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission Before: Prost, Taranto, and Chen. Appeal from ITC Investigation. The Federal Circuit expands the economic prong of the domestic-industry analysis to include domestic spending on...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Federal Circuit Expands Types of Investments That Satisfy the ITC’s “Domestic Industry” Requirement

Two recent Federal Circuit decisions open the doors of the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”) to smaller companies that are threatened by unfair imports....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Federal Circuit Ruling Opens the ITC to Many More IP Owners

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In a recent ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upended years of settled law and ruled that sales and marketing expenses, by themselves, can be the basis for a finding of domestic industry in an...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

[Podcast] Talkin’ Trade: Section 337 Domestic Industry Shake-Up—Exploring the Lashify Decision

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On this episode of Ropes & Gray's ITC-focused podcast series, Talkin' Trade, IP litigators Matt Rizzolo, Matt Shapiro, and Patrick Lavery discuss a groundbreaking Federal Circuit decision in Lashify v. ITC. This pivotal...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Biosimilar Litigations - March 2025

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Biosimilar Litigations include litigations relating to biosimilar/follow-on products of CDER-listed reference products. Litigations between biosimilar applicants/manufacturers and reference product sponsors as well as...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Federal Circuit Significantly Broadens Qualifying Expenses for Economic Domestic Industry at the ITC

On March 5, the Federal Circuit held that sales, marketing, warehousing, quality control, or distribution expenditures may count as “employment of labor or capital” for purposes of satisfying the economic domestic industry...more

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The Federal Circuit Expands Scope of Domestic Industry Requirement in Lashify

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In Lashify v. ITC, the Federal Circuit held that the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement, which is a precondition for obtaining International Trade Commission Section 337 relief, can be satisfied with...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Federal Circuit Removes Limits on “Qualifying” Domestic Industry Activities at the ITC

On March 5, 2025, the Federal Circuit rejected the ITC’s longstanding practice of excluding certain types of activities from qualifying as “domestic industry” activities under Section 337(a)(3)(B), finding the ITC’s approach...more

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Personal Jurisdiction Considerations for International Biosimilars Companies

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The Federal Circuit recently issued decisions in a pair of appeals that provide guidance about when international filers of abbreviated Biologics License Applications (aBLAs) are subject to jurisdiction in the United States....more

Haug Partners LLP

The Sole Meaning of “Solely”: Supreme Court Denies Certiorari on Edward Life Sciences v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. and Permits...

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This month the Supreme Court denied certiorari on Edwards Lifesciences Corp. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., and in doing so, seemingly indicated its support for a broad interpretation of the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Teva Branded Pharm. Products R&D, Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. of NY, LLC

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ProAir® HFA (albuterol sulfate) - Case Name: Teva Branded Pharm. Products R&D, Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. of NY, LLC, No. 2024-1936, 2024 WL 5176737 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 20, 2024) (Circuit Judges Prost, Taranto, and Hughes...more

Volpe Koenig

Designs on Trial: Comparing U.S. and EU Design Protections Post-LKQ

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The landscape of design protection has seen significant developments on both sides of the Atlantic, with the U.S. undergoing a pivotal shift in design patent law following the Federal Circuit’s decision in LKQ Corporation v....more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Reminder to Patent Holders: Mark Your Products

If you are a patent holder and are selling a product covered by your patent, please remember to mark your products. The purpose of patent marking is to give notice to the public that the product being sold is patented. If...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Circuit Says Proper Orange Book-Listed Patent Must Claim Active Ingredient

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In Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals of New York, LLC, the Federal Circuit jumped on the bandwagon of scrutinizing the types of patents that can be listed in the Food & Drug...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court: Factual Disputes Preclude Application of Safe Harbor to Gene Editing Technology at the Pleading Stage

The District of Delaware recently denied a motion to dismiss a patent infringement complaint involving gene editing technology that sought relief under the Safe Harbor Provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act. Specifically, the...more

A&O Shearman

Brussels enterprise court clarifies requirements for SPC manufacturing waiver

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In a judgment of 23 December 2024, the Dutch-speaking Enterprise Court of Brussels followed the reasoning of a Dutch court earlier in 2024, ruling that (i) manufacturers are not obliged to provide the reference number of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Transparency Is the Best Medicine: Device Parts Don’t Justify Orange Book Listing

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s delisting of patents from the Orange Book because the patent claims did not “claim the drug that was approved” or the active ingredient of the drug...more

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UPC ruling on Panasonic v. Oppo: A landmark decision on SEPS and FRAND

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On November, 22, 2024, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) delivered a landmark ruling in Panasonic v. Oppo, setting a significant precedent in the realm of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and...more

Jones Day

PTAB Forgives MTA Procedural Error

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The Federal Circuit affirmed in part, reversed-in-part and remanded-in-part the Board’s decision in the inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 8,265,096 (the “’096 patent”), and affirmed the Board’s decision as to the cross...more

Butler Snow LLP

A New Look at an Old Hot Topic: The Internet of Things

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In 1999, computer scientist Kevin Ashton coined the term “the Internet of Things” (“IoT”) in order to put a name to his idea of using RFID chips to track items as they moved throughout a supply chain. “Though there is no...more

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

2023 ITC Section 337 Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Introduction

Section 337 investigations at the ITC have proven to be an efficient and powerful method for Complainants seeking relief from unfair importation. The Commission’s injunctive powers provide an attractive forum for Complainants...more

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