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Claim Limitations Patent Validity

McDermott Will & Schulte

Specification controls: Written description must be clear

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s decision upholding patent validity, finding that the subject patent’s specification clearly established that the written description failed to...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Brave New World: UPC Central Division’s First Opinion is a Revocation of Antibody Claims as Lacking Inventive Step

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation of a counterpart U.S. patent in the same family for lack of enablement (21-757 Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (05/18/23) (supremecourt.gov)), the UPC has now rendered a decision on its...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Filling the Hole with Common Sense: When Evidentiary Support is Adequate

The Federal Circuit recently reaffirmed a case where common sense was used to supply a missing element in a § 103 obviousness analysis. On June 26, 2020, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D...more

Knobbe Martens

Large Quantity of Routine Experimentation Can Be “Undue Experimentation”

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IDENIX PHARMACEUTICALS LLC v. GILEAD SCIENCES INC. Before Prost, Newman, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Synthesizing and screening tens of thousands of...more

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