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On Tuesday, a Delaware district court judge ruled that a group of Mallinckrodt patents failed the Alice/(mostly)Mayo test as claiming a natural phenomenon. The... Read More »
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Brenden S. Gingrich, Ph.D.
On August 1, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its draft guidance titled... Read More »
Written by Jane Xia and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. SANDOZ INC
(Fed. Cir. July 17, 2017) (NEWMAN, Mayer, O’Malley)
This case ... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Jason Jardine
On July 13, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tremfya (guselkumab), a biologic... Read More »
Written by Peter E. Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
The Circuit issued only one precedential patent case this week, reversing a determination of... Read More »
Written by Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D.
On June 19, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the fluoroquinolone... Read More »
Written by Robert J. Hilton, Ph.D. and Jason J. Jardine
On May 24, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the final label for Syndros™... Read More »
Written by Jane Xia and Michael L. Fuller
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for treatment of patients whose... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
On May 17, 2017, Vertex Pharmaceuticals small molecule drug Kalydeco® (ivacaftor) was approved by ... Read More »
In Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, 525 US 55 (1988), the Supreme Court attempted to focus the factors invoking the on-sale bar of s . 102, by holding that the claimed... Read More »
In Novartis AG v. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, [2016-1352] (April 12, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s determination that the challenged... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
On March 13, 2017, the use of Novartis cell cycle inhibitor Kisqali® (ribociclib, LEE011) in... Read More »
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
Once considered parasites, free riders, or “opportunistic pathogens,” in recent years the... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller
On December 23, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved SPINRAZA™ (nusinersen)... Read More »
In Intendis v Glenmark, the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents based on statements made by Glenmark to the... Read More »
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In an en banc decision on July 12, 2016 in The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit established the circumstances under which a product manufactured... Read More »
ACTION: Infringement of U.S. Patent 5,827,529 (referred to as “529 Patent) by Noven Therapeutics/Noven Pharmaceuticals, makers of products such as the... Read More »
Ever forget to take your morning pills? Or can’t remember if you have to take the blue pill today or the yellow one? Suddenly, life just got a lot... Read More »
Could it be possible to one day deliver miniscule factories to the human body to produce medicine? In an article in the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano... Read More »
Medtronic, Inc. is developing a new stent graft system designed to repair thoracic aortic aneurysm. It has been selected by the FDA for an early feasibility pilot... Read More »