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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Expert Testimony Excluded under Kyocera Where Party Failed to Establish its Expert Possessed the Necessary 'Advanced Training and...

The Federal Circuit’s decision in Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. v. International Trade Commission articulated a bright-line test for patent expert admissibility: to testify from the perspective of a “person of ordinary...more

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Federal Circuit Says No Timing Requirement To Qualify As A POSITA

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Last week, in Osseo Imaging, LLC v. Planmeca USA Inc., No. 2023-1627 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 4, 2024), the Federal Circuit held that “[a]n expert need not have acquired the skill level prior to the time of the invention to be able...more

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District Court Precludes Experienced Patent Attorney from Testifying as Expert Based on Lack of Pertinent Technical Expertise

A district court recently precluded a patent attorney from testifying as an expert in a patent infringement lawsuit where the proposed expert lacked the requisite technical expertise to assist the trier of fact in...more

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PTAB Doubles Down on Interference Estoppel Issue

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held all challenged claims of IGT’s patent unpatentable as obvious over two prior art patents. Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199-32. In doing so, the PTAB further held that, contrary to...more

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Lilly’s CIALIS patent claims extending to “physiologically acceptable salt” found invalid for overbreadth and insufficiency

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On October 17, 2022, Justice St-Louis of the Federal Court granted a motion for summary trial brought by Teva, Pharmascience, Laboratoire Riva, Apotex and Mylan (the Defendants) and dismissed the underlying actions of Lilly...more

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Error in Prior Art Did Not Render Invention Obvious

In LG Electronics Inc. v. Immervision, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that an obvious error in a prior art reference was not considered a teaching. The court explained that a person of ordinary skill in the art (POSITA) would...more

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Unforced Error: An IPR Challenger Cannot Rely on an Error That a Posita Would Have Corrected

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LG ELECTRONICS INC. v. IMMERVISION INC. Before Stoll, Cunningham, and Newman, Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Where a reference contains an “obvious”...more

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Angelcare and Playtex take out the trash: Diaper Genie patents are valid and infringed by Munchkin

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On April 7, 2022, the Federal Court issued its judgment and reasons in Angelcare Canada Inc et al v Munchkin Inc et al (2022 FC 507), finding that Munchkin, Inc and Munchkin Baby Canada Ltd (the “Defendants” or “Munchkin”)...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Last Week in the Federal Circuit (July 5-9): What Happens When the Federal Circuit Looks to Define the Undefined

Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our highly subjective selection based on whatever case piqued our interest. Precedential opinions: 1 - v Non-precedential opinions: 4 - Rule 36: 3...more

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Are Biopharma Genus Patent Claims Dead?

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A recent Supreme Court petition for certiorari alleges that genus claims are no longer viable under the Federal Circuit’s recent application of enablement and written description law.The petition has huge ramifications not...more

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IBSA Institut Biochimique, S.A. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc.

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Tirosint®/levothyroxine sodium - Case Name: IBSA Institut Biochimique, S.A. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., No. 2019-2400 (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2020) (Circuit Judges Prost, Reyna, and Hughes presiding; Opinion by Prost, C.J.)...more

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Cephalon, Inc. v. Slayback Pharma Ltd.

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THE COURT FOUND THAT DEFENDANTS HAD NOT MET THEIR CLEAR-AND-CONVINCING BURDEN OF PROVING THAT FORMULATION AND METHOD-OF-TREATMENTS PATENTS-IN-SUIT WERE OBVIOUS. Case Name: Cephalon, Inc. v. Slayback Pharma Ltd., No....more

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PTAB’s New Informative Decisions Remind IPR Petitioners of Need for Well-Developed Rationale for Combining References

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On December 11, 2019, the PTAB designated two additional decisions as “informative.”  Such informative decisions are not binding on subsequent panels, but are meant to provide guidance on recurring issues encountered by PTAB...more

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“Consisting Essentially Of:” Expanding the Scope of Indefiniteness

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s determination, holding a group of patents invalid for indefiniteness. In December 2014, HZNP Medicines LLC (“Horizon”) brought suit against Actavis Laboratories UT,...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2019 #3

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - HZNP Medicines LLC v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2149, et al. (Fed. Cir. Oct. 10, 2019) - In a lengthy decision following a bench trial, the Court addressed a matter of...more

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Year-end Round-up: Notable Canadian Patent Cases of 2018

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Earlier this month we published an exhaustive review of the life sciences and regulatory cases in the Canadian courts, and decisions on the merits for the year are summarized in our in our Rx IP Update 2018 Highlights in...more

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