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[Event] 21st Annual Conference on Paragraph IV Disputes - April 29th - 30th, New York, NY

Attend ACI's 21st Annual Conference on Paragraph IV Disputes and join leaders from brand and generic pharmaceutical companies, renowned outside counsel, esteemed members of the judiciary, government, and academia to: -...more

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Cancer Drugs: Strategies For Patenting Antibody-Drug Conjugate Inventions

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Antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) is a promising class of cancer treatments with accelerating U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and rapidly growing market size as discussed in previous articles in this series. This...more

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Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)

The Federal Circuit handed down an opinion last week that invalidated several asserted claims and found infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2) of the claims, while refusing to modify its judgment on infringement after...more

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USPTO Issues Training Materials to Examiners for Searching FDA and NIH Resources

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On March 20, 2024, The USPTO issued an alert, notifying practitioners that the USPTO had developed training materials for patent examiners regarding searching for prior art in FDA and NIH databases. ...more

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Will the FDA-PTO Collaboration Pay Off?

Since President Biden's July 2021 executive order directing the FDA Commissioner to collaborate with the PTO on potential misuse of the patent system, I've been skeptical as to whether such efforts will have any impact on the...more

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Adapt Pharma Operations Ltd. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022)

In a crowded pharmaceutical art, the deficiencies thereof being so patent that the FDA encouraged industry to address and correct them, concerning a formulation developed to address the opioid crisis raging earlier in this...more

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Federal Circuit Declines to Revive Opioid Overdose Remedy

On February 10, in Adapt Pharma Operations Ltd. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s holding that Adapt’s methods of treatment of opioid overdose is invalid as obvious. The...more

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Valeant Pharms Int’l, Inc. v. Mylan Pharms Inc.

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BECAUSE THE PRIOR ART TAUGHT OVERLAPPING PH RANGES AND STRUCTURALLY SIMILAR COMPOUNDS AS THOSE CLAIMED IN THE PATENT-IN-SUIT, THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT REVERSED SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF NON-OBVIOUSNESS. Case Name: Valeant Pharms...more

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Onyx Therapeutics, Inc. v. Cipla Ltd.

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BECAUSE A POSA WOULD NOT HAVE SELECTED THE PRIOR-ART COMPOUND AS A “LEAD COMPOUND,” AND THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT THE INVENTION MET AN UNMET NEED AND OVERCAME INDUSTRY SKEPTICISM, DEFENDANT FAILED TO PROVE THAT THE...more

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Tris Pharma Inc. v. Actavis Labs. Fl, Inc.

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Case Name: Tris Pharma Inc. v. Actavis Labs. Fl, Inc., Fed. Cir. Nos. 2017-2557, -2559, -2560, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 32774 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 20, 2018) (Circuit Judges Newman, O’Malley, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.)...more

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Genzyme Corp. v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs., Ltd.

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Case Name: Genzyme Corp. v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs., Ltd., C.A. No. 13-1506-(GMS), 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62056 (D. Del. May 11, 2016) (Sleet, J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Mozobil® (plerixafor solution); U.S. Pat....more

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Intendis GMBH et al. v. Glenmark Pharms. Inc., USA

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Case Name: Intendis GMBH et al. v. Glenmark Pharms. Inc., USA, 822 F.3d 1355 (Fed. Cir. May 16, 2016) (Circuit Judges Prost, Moore, and Taranto presiding; Opinion by Moore, J.) (Appeal from D. Del., Robinson, J.) - Drug...more

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Combining Two Drugs Is Not Always Obvious

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Addressing the obviousness of combining two known hypertension medications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling of...more

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Research Foundation of State University of New York v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013)

When assessing the validity of a patent, you cannot ignore the dependent claims. That was the main takeaway from the recent Federal Circuit case, Research Foundation of State University of New York v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals...more

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