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Supreme Court Voids Amgen’s Patents using “Undue Experimentation” Standard
In Appeal no. 21-257 (May 18, 2023), the Supreme Court affirmed the judgement of the Fed. Cir. by ruling that all of the claims of Amgen’s U.S. Patent nos. 8,829,165 and 8,859, 741 were invalid due to their failure to … Continue reading
Amgen v. Sanofi – How Wands Factors make Biotech Claims “Magically” Disappear
While this recent Fed. Cir. decision – Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, Appeal No. 2020-1074 (Fed. Cir., Feb. 11, 2021) seems predictable, given the fate of antibody claims that recite the target and the function of antibody binding thereto, there are … Continue reading
AAM v. Neapco – Part III – The Dissent Faces a “Perfect Storm” of Conflated Doctrines
Since most of my last post discussing Judge Moore’s dissent focused on her criticism of the majority’s conclusion that the claimed invention—placing a tuned liner into a hollow “propshaft” to attenuate two modes of vibration—was directed to Hooke’s law and … Continue reading
The Unacknowledged Role of Section 112 in the Myriad Decisions
Guest post from Paul Cole, Lucas & Co., UK; introduction by Warren Woessner. In this interesting note, Paul Cole explores the possible effect on the Fed. Cir. and Supreme Court’s decisions about the patent-eligibility of “genomic DNA” of the arguable … Continue reading
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