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Is Your Enantiomer Possessed? Patenting of Enantiomers – Does Written Description Require More Than Actual Possession?

It is well established that an enantiomerically pure compound exhibiting advantageous properties not present in its isomer or its corresponding racemic mixture, can be patented even if its corresponding racemic mixtures are...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

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear Patenticity: Patent Prophet

Dear Patenticity, I have a chemical invention and I want to obtain the broadest coverage I can. The problem is I have not done much lab work, so I only have a couple real examples. I know that the written description...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Juno v. Kite: Written Description and Claiming Antibodies and Chimeric Antigen Receptors—Lessons for Patent Prosecutors

The recently reversed jury verdict and billion-dollar judgment in favor of Juno Therapeutics on the grounds that the asserted claims did not satisfy the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112. See Juno...more

BakerHostetler

Promoting the Progress of Science: Written Description and Enablement

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You’ve finished drafting the patent application for a critical, clinical stage invention. The scientific team wrote up the examples and they even included comparative data. You’ve finalized the claims and specification....more

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