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Life Sciences Newsletter - March 2025

Welcome to the first issue of the BakerHostetler Life Sciences Newsletter! Within it you will find an overview of noteworthy developments in the life sciences space and at BakerHostetler. ...more

A Later-Discovered Improvement to an Invention Cannot Be Used To Reach Back and Invalidate an Earlier-Filed Patent

Novartis markets and sells a combination therapy of valsartan and sacubitril under the brand name Entresto® for the treatment of various forms of heart failure. MSN submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application seeking...more

[Podcast] Biotechnology, Chemical and Pharmaceutical: Supreme Showdown

In 2023, a lawsuit that had wound its way through the judicial system for nearly 10 years finally had its day in the U.S. Supreme Court – and made waves in the biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical communities. Our...more

In the Wake of the Amgen Decision, the USPTO Will Continue To Use the Wands Factors when Evaluating Enablement

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, 598 U.S. 594 (2023) (Amgen), in which the Court addressed whether Amgen’s functional antibody genus claims satisfy the enablement requirement, the U.S....more

Federal Circuit Affirms Lack of Enablement of Functional Antibody Claims

In its recent decision in Baxalta Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., No. 2022-1461, 2023 WL 6135930 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 20, 2023), the Federal Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi to affirm the District of...more

Method of Treatment Claims Are Not Invalid for Lacking Written Description or Enablement Simply Because the Treatment Is Not Safe...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in United Therapeutics Corp. v. Liquidia Techs., Inc., No. 2022-2217, 2023 WL 4695903 (Fed. Cir. July 24, 2023), provides an interesting discussion on the written description and...more

Congress Seeks to Eliminate the Judicial Exceptions to Patent Eligibility

On June 22, Senator Thom Tillis (R – NC) and Senator Chris Coons (D – DE) introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023, which seeks to eliminate all judicial exceptions to patent eligibility. The bill proposes...more

Now What? The Supreme Court Addresses Enablement

What do telegraphic communications, incandescent lamps, wood veneering glues, and antibodies have in common? Nothing. That is of course, until May 18, 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that Amgen’s antibody claims, like...more

Incorporated References Can Be Used in an Anticipation Rejection

A claim is said to be anticipated when a single prior art reference discloses, either expressly or inherently, each and every limitation of the claim. But what happens when a prior art reference discloses some aspects of the...more

The Supreme Court Again Declines to Address the Written Description Standard

Without any comments, the Supreme Court has denied Juno Therapeutics’ Petition for Rehearing, which requested that the Court hold the case in abeyance pending the resolution of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, Aventisub LLC....more

Juno Therapeutics Requests That the Supreme Court Wait to Make a Decision on Its Written Description Question Until Amgen’s...

Juno Therapeutics (Juno) has filed a Petition for Rehearing with the Supreme Court, requesting that the Court vacate its previous order denying Juno’s petition for certiorari and hold the case in abeyance pending the...more

Supreme Court to Address What it Means to Have an Enabling Disclosure

The Supreme Court has granted Amgen’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, agreeing to address what it means to provide an enabling disclosure. In particular, Amgen asked the Court to address...more

Sandoz Requests Supreme Court Review of the Federal Circuit’s Interpretation of Biosimilar Law

On February 16, 2016, Sandoz Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act...more

A Split Decision Remains Split; No en banc Review of Amgen v. Sandoz

On October 16, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) opted not to rehear its previously issued split decision in the court’s first analysis of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation...more

Federal Circuit Confirms Both New Biosimilar Bring-to-Market Procedural Option and Additional Six-Month Exclusivity Period for...

On July 21, 2015, brand-name biologics companies and companies developing biosimilars received a split in a significant decision with industry-wide ramifications in the high-stakes battle about how and when biosimilar...more

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