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Federal Circuit Reverses Injunction That Barred Clinical Trials in Jazz v. Avadel

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The Federal Circuit recently considered the scope of a permanent injunction that prohibited a drug manufacturer from conducting certain clinical and regulatory activities in Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Avadel CNS...more

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Hatch-Waxman or Not, Clinical Trials Aren’t Subject to Injunction

Analyzing the permissible scope of an injunction under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s prohibitions on an open-label extension (OLE) of a then-running...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Pharmaceutical Patent Protections

This week, we take a closer look at two precedential cases concerning pharmaceutical patent protections as applied to drugs in development. In Incyte Corp. v. Sun Pharm., Judge Hughes entered a dissent pushing back on the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

What’s the (Re)issue? Patent Term Extensions for Reissue Patents

Addressing the calculation of patent term extensions (PTEs) under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court decision that under the act the issue date of the original...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases: Actavis Labs. FL, Inc. v. United States

Actavis Labs. FL, Inc. v. United States, Appeal No. 2023-1320 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21, 2025) Our Case of the Week, in the words of its author, Circuit Judge Stark, “is not actually a patent case. It is, instead, a tax case.” In...more

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Patent Term Extension Calculation for Reissue Patents

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On March 13, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V. v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., No. 23-2254 (Fed. Cir. 2025) that clarifies how patent term extension (PTE) is calculated for reissue...more

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Federal Circuit Decision Could Encourage More Reissue Patents

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The Patent Term Extension (PTE) provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 156 compensate pharmaceutical patent owners for time they are not able to enjoy commercial market exclusivity because their products are not yet approved by the U.S....more

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Federal Circuit: Reissue Patents Get PTE Based on the Original Patent’s Issue Date

On March 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a five-year patent term extension (“PTE”) for Merck’s sugammadex patent, holding that the district court had correctly calculated PTE based on the...more

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Federal Circuit Refuses to Rehear Case Involving Orange Book Listing of Device Patents

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Late last year we reported on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision holding that certain device patents should not have been listed in the FDA’s Orange Book since the claims of the patents in...more

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2024 Federal Circuit IP Appeals – Amarin Pharma, Inc. v. Hikma Pharm. USA Inc., 104 F.4th 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2024) (Moore, Lourie,...

Amarin sells the drug icosapent ethyl under the brand name Vascepa. Vascepa is approved by the FDA for two indications: (i) to treat severe hypertriglyceridemia, a condition characterized by blood triglyceride levels greater...more

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Silvergate Pharms., Inc. v. Bionpharma Inc.

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Epaned® (enalapril maleate) - Case Name: Silvergate Pharms., Inc. v. Bionpharma Inc., Civ. Nos. 18-cv-1962, 19-cv-1067, 2024 WL 4417104 (D. Del. Oct. 4, 2024) (Goldberg, J.)  Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Epaned®...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: FDA Filing Can Create Personal Jurisdiction; “Compelling” Arguments that Reverse Doctrine of...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - STEUBEN FOODS, INC. v. SHIBUYA HOPPMANN CORPORATION [OPINION] (2023-1790, 1/24/2025) (Moore, Hughes, Cunningham) - Moore, Chief J. The Court reversed the district...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Appeal Nos. 2024-1965, -1966, -2082, -2083 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 29, 2025) Our Case of the Week is a 31-page decision that touches on a variety of issues, including...more

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Federal Circuit Reverses Decision Finding Lack of Written Description for Patent Claiming a Pharmaceutical Composition Comprising...

The Federal Circuit recently reversed a District of Delaware decision that invalidated claims of Novartis’s Orange Book listed patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,101,659 (the “’659 patent”), for its blockbuster drug Entresto®, a...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2024 #3

CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corp., Appeal No. 2023-1111 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 18, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed the question of divided infringement in the context of system claims. In its...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Teva v. Amneal -- Amneal's Responsive Brief & Teva's Reply Brief

The Federal Circuit has been petitioned by plaintiff Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc. to reverse a decision in favor of Defendant Amneal Pharmaceuticals wherein the District Court entered an injunction ordering...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

In re Cellect in View of Supreme Court's "Long Conference"

In view of the Supreme Court's "long conference" on September 30th, it seems timely to review the arguments, pro, con, and amicus briefs submitted to the Court asking for certiorari over the Federal Circuit's In re...more

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New Jersey District Court Orders Delisting Of Teva Inhaler Patents From The Orange Book

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On June 10, 2024, Judge Stanley R. Chesler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted the Amneal defendants’ motion for partial judgment on their counterclaims in a Hatch-Waxman dispute, and...more

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Federal Circuit Review | June 2024

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Reliably Determining Reasonable Royalty Rates from Lump Sum Licenses - In Ecofactor, Inc. V. Google LLC, Appeal No. 23-1101, The Federal Circuit held that license agreements containing a lump sum payment “based on” a royalty...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Rifaximin Patent Rulings, Affirms ANDA Approval Restrictions

In Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2023-1952 (Fed. Cir. April 11, 2024), this case involves appellate review of a district court’s findings regarding patent obviousness and infringement in...more

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2023 ITC Section 337 Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: The Public Interest Impact – Considerations from AliveCor and Masimo

The year 2023 was marked by two landmark Commission determinations resulting in exclusion orders and cease and desist orders against a popular consumer wearable—the Apple Watch. both investigations focused on health...more

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The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - January 2024

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Illumina Agrees to Unwind Acquisition of Grail Following Fifth Circuit Decision.  On December 15, 2023, the Fifth Circuit vacated the FTC’s order that Illumina unwind its acquisition of Grail—a developer of a multi-cancer...more

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Federal Circuit Evaluates Impact of the Final Written Decision (FWD) in a Parallel Inter-Partes Review (IPR) on District Court’s...

In United Therapeutics Corp. v Liquidia Tech Inc., the Federal Circuit reviewed the district court’s decision on invalidity and infringement of two pharmaceutical patents and the impact of the Final Written Decision (FWD) in...more

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See Here: No Standing Based on Vague Future Plans or Adverse Priority Findings

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a final written decision in an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding, finding that the petitioner lacked standing because it suffered no injury in fact....more

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Calculating Patent Term Extension for FDA Delay: Original Patent or Reissue Patent Issue Date?

The Federal Circuit appeal in Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V., Merck Sharp & Dohme, LLC v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. et al., concerns whether patent term extension (PTE) for regulatory delay, in particular delay for FDA drug...more

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