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A&O Shearman

Court of Appeal upholds invalidity of AstraZeneca's compound patent and clarifies the standard of plausibility

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On July 16 2025, the Court of Appeal dismissed AstraZeneca’s appeal and upheld the first instance decision, finding that AstraZeneca’s compound patent for dapagliflozin, an SGLT2 inhibitor used to treat diabetes, was invalid...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Transatlantic Terminology: Skilled Artisan Could Equate UK, US Word Meanings

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board unpatentability determination, finding that a skilled artisan would have found the term “sterile” in a UK publication to mean the same as...more

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