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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and Life Sciences Innovation

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The biotechnology and life science sectors underpin breakthroughs in health care, agriculture, and environmental sustainability by leveraging living systems to create next-generation medicines, diagnostics, and bio-based...more

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Bipartisan Law Introduced to Clarify Patent Eligibility

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For the past decade, controversy regarding the laws of patent eligibility has created uncertainty in the minds of inventors and investors, especially in the biotechnology, medical diagnostics, and software industries adjacent...more

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No Need to Show Reasonable Expectation of Success Regarding Inherent Property

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The Federal Circuit affirmed six PTAB decisions that held unpatentable as obvious 79 claims of three Cytiva Bioprocess (“Cytiva”) challenged patents and reversed the PTAB decision upholding four claims....more

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Federal Agencies Seeking Patent Seizure Authority Through Draft NIST Guidance

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The Situation: On December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a proposed framework for federal agencies regarding the exercise of the government's march-in rights for federally...more

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IP Toolbox Is Crucial In AI-Powered Drug Discovery

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Navigating the complex landscape of drug discovery requires innovative strategies and interdisciplinary collaborations spanning biotechnology, pharmacology, medicine and engineering. As the cost of developing new drugs...more

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Recessions and Patent Applications: Navigating the Ups and Downs of the Innovation Economy

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As predictions of an economic recession in the United States loom, 2023 has started with extensive layoffs throughout the tech industry. Though not to an equal degree, the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life science...more

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SUPREME COURT RULING: Amgen Inc. et al. v. Sanofi et al, May 18, 2023

Amgen Inc. et al. v. Sanofi et al, No. 21-757 (S. Ct. May 18, 2023) The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision today concerning the enablement requirement found in Section 112 of the Patent Act. Specifically, the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Supreme Court Delivers the Final Blow to Amgen

The questions from the high court during oral argument at the end of March 2023 were fairly telling of the 9-0 ruling that came down yesterday in Amgen, Inc. v. Sanofi (No. 21-757). In fact, it did not come as much of a...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Supreme Court Affirms Federal Circuit’s Decision in Amgen v. Sanofi

This morning, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in Amgen v. Sanofi, a closely watched case concerning patent law’s enablement requirement. Under that requirement, codified at 35 U.S.C. § 112(a), a patent specification...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

The Supreme Court Hears Arguments About the Enablement Standard in Amgen v. Sanofi

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in Amgen v. Sanofi, the closely-watched case involving the enablement standard for patent claims, particularly as applied to functionally-defined genus claims. The question raised...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Final Judgment Prescribed For Antibody Patent After Double Patenting Decision

We previously wrote about Judge Wolf’s decision to invalidate Janssen Biotech, Inc.’s (“Janssen”) biopharmaceutical patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,284,471 (the “’471 Patent”)), based on the doctrine of obviousness-type double...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Patent Profile: DermTech Receives Patent for Method of Detecting Melanoma in Human Subjects

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued a notice of allowance for U.S. Application No. 14/199,900, which is entitled "Diagnosis of Solar Lentigo by Nucleic Acid Analysis." The '900 application, which is assigned...more

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Court Report -- June 30, 2013

About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Alpex Pharma S A et al. v. Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. et al. 1:13-cv-01143; filed June 26, 2013 in the District...more

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SCOTUS: Human Genes Cannot Be Patented. Is This the End or Beginning of Genetic Research?

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For a Legal Perspective on today's much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court "Myriad" decision that naturally occuring substances are not patentable, we turned to IP attorneys writing on JD Supra...more

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Sharing an Umbrella

Big Pharma and academia cement big deals in the quest for bigger prizes - With the patents of many highly profitable blockbuster drugs expiring over the course of a few years, the search is on for new drugs to fill...more

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Bilski v. Kappos: Effects on Biotechnology Patents

Although long-anticipated, the Supreme Court's opinion in Bilski did not provide much in terms of “pellucid” teachings regarding the metes and bounds of patent-eligible subject matter. Against this backdrop, the Court decided...more

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