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Written Descriptions Patents Motion for JMOL

McDermott Will & Schulte

Specification controls: Written description must be clear

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s decision upholding patent validity, finding that the subject patent’s specification clearly established that the written description failed to...more

Haug Partners LLP

Are Biopharma Genus Patent Claims Dead?

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A recent Supreme Court petition for certiorari alleges that genus claims are no longer viable under the Federal Circuit’s recent application of enablement and written description law.The petition has huge ramifications not...more

Knobbe Martens

Large Quantity of Routine Experimentation Can Be “Undue Experimentation”

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IDENIX PHARMACEUTICALS LLC v. GILEAD SCIENCES INC. Before Prost, Newman, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Synthesizing and screening tens of thousands of...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

2017 Supreme Court and Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit, With Some Significant Cases from 2016

Arbitration - Waymo v. Uber Technologies, 870 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2017) - Waymo sued Uber and others for trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement. Uber contends that Waymo should be compelled to...more

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