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Federal Circuit: Patent Term Extension for Reissued Patents is Calculated Using the Original Patent’s Issue Date Where the...

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The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s holding that patent term extension (PTE) for a reissued patent was properly based on the issue date of the original patent and not that of the reissued patent. The...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases: Pharmaceutical Patent Protections

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This week, we take a closer look at two precedential cases concerning pharmaceutical patent protections as applied to drugs in development. In Incyte Corp. v. Sun Pharm., Judge Hughes entered a dissent pushing back on the...more

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Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V. v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2025)

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Early last year, Aurobindo, one of the Defendants* in ANDA litigation against Merck, advanced the proposition that in cases where a patent had been reissued patent term extension ("PTE") under 35 U.S.C. § 156 should be...more

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Calculating Patent Term Extension for FDA Delay: Original Patent or Reissue Patent Issue Date?

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The Federal Circuit appeal in Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V., Merck Sharp & Dohme, LLC v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. et al., concerns whether patent term extension (PTE) for regulatory delay, in particular delay for FDA drug...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - July 2016 #2

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WBIP, LLC v. Kohler Co. (No. 2015-1038, -1044, 7/19/16) (Moore, O'Malley, Chen) - Moore, J. Affirming denial of JMOL that patent was invalid as obvious and lacked an adequate written description, affirming finding of...more

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The Medicines Company v. Hospira (Fed. Cir. 2015)

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There have been many voices raised in recent years against the patent system for a variety of political, policy, or personal reasons. Indeed, there is even a book entitled Don't File a Patent that sets out the authors'...more

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