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

Cellect and Allergan: Obviousness-Type Double Patenting (ODP) in Reexamination and Reissue

Takeaways: 1. ODP in reexamination and reissue remains unpredictable despite Allergan 2. Patent Owners should carefully review ODP rejections to ensure they are proper Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is a legal...more

Alston & Bird

Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending March 8, 2024

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Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., No. 2022-1756 (Fed. Cir. (S.D.N.Y.) Mar. 5, 2024). Opinion by Moore, joined by Stoll and Cunningham. IBM owns two patents that generally relate to improvements in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Patentee’s Own Clinical Trial Renders Unpatentable Patent Claims Directed to Antibody Treatment

In a final written decision of an inter partes review proceeding, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found all 12 claims of a challenged patent unpatentable as either anticipated or obvious. Each ground of unpatentability...more

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

Mind Your Ps and Qs, and Your PTAs Too

Last week, the Federal Circuit held that obviousness-type double patenting trumps patent term adjustment, opening the door for invalidity attacks that to date had been questionable. In re Cellect was an appeal from a...more

Fish & Richardson

2020 Post-Grant Report

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In a year of extraordinary change, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rose to the challenge - Given the challenges of 2020 – a global pandemic, a deep economic recession, and a turbulent presidential election, among...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Federal Circuit Holds Tribal Immunity Does Not Apply To Inter Partes Review

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Last Friday, in an anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided a controversial case regarding the St. Regis Mohawk’s ability assert sovereign immunity in inter partes review proceedings. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

References Introduced During IPR Proceeding Not Necessarily New Evidence to Which Patent Owner Had No Opportunity to Respond

On May 14, 2018, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (the “Board”) Final Written Decision in an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding holding all claims of Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (“Anacor”)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In Rare Decision, PTAB Grants Request for Rehearing, Reverses its Prior Decision, and Institutes IPR

Requests for rehearing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) are not uncommon; however, the Board rarely grants them. One reason for this result is the high standard applied to reverse a prior decision—abuse of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

PTAB Releases Orange Book-Listed Patent Study

Pharmaceutical patent owners have been one of the more vocal groups decrying the creation and existence of inter partes reviews and other PTAB post-issuance proceedings. And for good reason. Congress enacted the...more

Knobbe Martens

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is not entitled to Sovereign Immunity at the PTAB

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The PTAB dismissed the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s attempt to avoid IPR of patents covering Restasis®, which Allergan transferred to the Tribe in a highly publicized patent deal. See Allergan and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe...more

Troutman Pepper

Allergan’s Mohawk Gambit Fails At The PTAB

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has not taken kindly to a move by the Irish drug company Allergan to shield its key patents on its dry-eye drug Restasis from challenge at the U.S. Patent Office by assigning these...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

Berkheimer v. HP Inc., Appeal No. 2017-1437 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 8, 2018) - In Berkheimer v. HP Inc., the Federal Circuit reviewed the District Court’s summary judgment finding that certain claims of a patent were invalid as...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

PTAB Enters Sua Sponte Patent Eligibility Rejections

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We’ve written previously about ex parte decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) affirming patent eligibility rejections that seem to be inconsistent with the USPTO’s Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance....more

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New Year's Resolutions For The U.S. Patent System

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It’s that time of year when we make resolutions to improve our health, our relationships, our careers, or other areas of our lives. I’m not starting a new diet today (although if I were, the invention described in this patent...more

Jones Day

Inherent Obviousness: Available IPR Rationale With a High Standard

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On November 28, 2017, the PTAB issued a final written decision upholding the patentability of U.S. Patent No. 6,667,061 (IPR2016-01096). The ’061 patent is owned by Alkermes Pharma Ireland, Ltd. and Alkermes Controlled...more

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Known Solution to General Problem Provides Sufficient Motivation to Modify Prior Art

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In a final written decision in Bass, et al., v. Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (IPR2016-00254), the PTAB found that the challenged claims of Fresenius’s U.S. Patent No. 8,476,010, directed to a sterile pharmaceutical composition of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Patent Owner Extinguishes IPR by Amending Claims

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In a rare case where the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted a motion to amend the claims in an inter partes review (IPR), the patent owner successfully canceled all claims subject to review by changing the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Evidence of Priority to Provisional Application and that Prior Art Was Not Work of Another Defeated Obviousness Challenge in IPR

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) issued a final written decision determining that the Coalition for Affordable Drugs (ADROCA), LLC (“Petitioner”) failed to prove unpatentable claims 1-52 of U.S. Patent No....more

Goodwin

Issue Three: Keeping Tabs on the PTAB

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This monthly digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Lessons Learned from AIA Invalidity Proceedings in the Bio/Pharma Space

September 16, 2016, marked the fourth anniversary of the effective date for the invalidity proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) created by the America Invents Act (AIA). These new AIA...more

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