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What Makes a Good Cell and Gene Therapy Application?

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Cell and gene therapies represent a transformative frontier in modern medicine, offering potential cures for previously untreatable conditions. However, securing intellectual property (IP) protection for these innovations...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Unexpected Paths to IP Law with Dan Young and Colin White

For many, the journey to IP law is circuitous. And that’s undoubtedly true for Wolf Greenfield Shareholder Dan Young and Technology Specialist Colin White. Both had interesting careers outside of the legal industry before...more

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

Key Inventorship Considerations in AI-assisted Drug Development

The utilization of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is becoming ubiquitous across a wide range of industry sectors. The biotech industry is no exception. AI-driven platforms have become increasingly useful to biotech...more

Jones Day

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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Federal Government Releases Proposed Guidance for Exercising “March-In” Rights Under the Bayh-Dole Act: Implications for...

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On December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a draft guidance document regarding the government’s exercise of “march-in” rights under the Bayh-Dole Act. The Bayh-Dole march-in...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Supreme Court Upholds Patent Law Precedent

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The case of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, U.S., No. 21-757 dealt with patent law’s “enablement” requirement. Essentially, the Court affirmed 150 years of precedent requiring the invention to be described “‘in such full, clear,...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

5 Takeaways from the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Amgen v. Sanofi

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (referred to as the Amgen decision) likely makes it more difficult for life sciences companies to obtain broad patents claiming an entire genus of antibodies...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

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

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

4 Potential Paths For High Court In Amgen Patent Case

On March 27, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Amgen v. Sanofi, a closely watched case concerning the appropriate legal standard for patent law's enablement requirement. That requirement is found in Title 35...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

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

Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi Live Coverage

On Monday, March 27, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, No. 21-757. William H. Milliken, a director in Sterne Kessler’s Trial & Appellate Practice...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Pharma-Related Patent Enablement Reaches the Highest Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that is extremely significant for companies that operate in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical sectors. At issue in Amgen v. Sanofi is a determination of the...more

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Prior Art Showing An Invention To Be “At Least Possible” Found Sufficient To Invalidate Surgical Device Patent

On August 23rd, the Federal Circuit upheld in part and reversed in part a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB or Board) concerning Ethicon’s patent on a robotic surgical tool, holding that the Board’s...more

Hogan Lovells

Patent law in Europe: What pharmaceutical companies need to know

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Increasing competition within Europe’s pharmaceutical space makes knowing the market and understanding available patent protections more critical than ever for both well established and new market players. Andreas von Falck...more

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Brexit Bill - Impact on patents

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The UK government’s draft EU Withdrawal Bill (the “Brexit Bill“) aims to incorporate EU directives and regulations into UK domestic law in their current form immediately following Brexit (“Retained EU Law“).  This article...more

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Freedom to Utilize Genetic Resources? The Nagoya Protocol Two Years Later

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Two years ago today, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (“Protocol”) entered into international...more

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