Last week, the Supreme Court granted Amgen’s petition for certiorari to reconsider the enablement requirement for genus claims. The Supreme Court will review whether the Federal Circuit panel in Amgen v. Sanofi improperly...more
As we reported last month, the Federal Circuit panel in Amgen v. Sanofi affirmed the district court’s judgment as a matter of law invalidating genus claims in U.S. Patent Nos. 8,829,165 and 8,859,741 that recite functional...more
In our earlier post, we questioned whether the Federal Circuit would continue to invalidate genus claims directed to biologics, and the answer is yes. Not surprisingly, the Federal Circuit panel in Amgen v. Sanofi affirmed...more
In a law review article entitled “The Death of the Genus Claim,” which published in the aftermath of the Federal Circuit decision in Idenix v. Gilead, 941 F.3d 1149 (Fed. Cir. 2019), the authors stated that, “in the past...more