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Written Description for Genus Claims Following Juno Therapeutics v. Kite Pharmaceuticals

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Section 112 of the Patent Act contains multiple requirements that relate to the adequacy of an inventor’s disclosure within a patent application.  The Supreme Court has offered some clarity to inventors seeking to patent...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

5 Takeaways from the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Amgen v. Sanofi

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (referred to as the Amgen decision) likely makes it more difficult for life sciences companies to obtain broad patents claiming an entire genus of antibodies...more

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The Supreme Court Again Declines to Address the Written Description Standard

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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

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Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Actavis Laboratories v. Nalproprion Pharmaceuticals

In the Supreme Court's recent clarifying campaign through the Federal Circuit's U.S. patent law jurisprudence, one section of the statute, 35 U.S.C. §112(a) has been noticeably left unscathed. Indeed, avoidance of this...more

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