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Month: January 2016
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By Andrew Williams — Back in January 2002, when this author was near the beginning of his patent law career, the Federal Circuit handed down the In re Sang-Su Lee case. Among other things, this case provided patent practitioners with support for challenging examiners that failed to identify the evidence on which they were relying. …
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Purdue Pharma L.P. et al. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC1:15-cv-00831; filed September 17, 2015 in the District Court of Delaware • Plaintiffs: Purdue Pharma L.P.; P.F. Laboratories Inc.; Purdue Pharmaceuticals L.P.• Defendant: Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — CRISPR (an acronym for Clustered Regularly lnterspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which is part of a system for altering chromosomal sequences in situ in a cell in combination with a bacterially derived protein called Cas9, has been hailed as the "Breakthrough of the Year" for 2015, and rightfully so. Just as…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a letter sent earlier this month to Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and Director Francis S. Collins of the National Institutes of Health, fifty members of the U.S. House of Representatives urged Secretary Burwell and Director Collins to use their existing statutory…
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By Donald Zuhn –- For the second time in a little more than a month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has experienced an unexpected closing. Last month, the closing resulted from a major power outage at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA that significantly damaged the Office's electronic systems and required the shutdown of its…
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By Michael Borella — Voxathon sued Alpine, and a number of defendants that manufacture automobiles, for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,442,261. According to the Court, the patent "relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for transferring information efficiently." Specifically, claim 1 recites: A method for recovering calls using an attendant telephone set having a predetermined…
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Financial Services Patent Claims Invalid By Joseph Herndon — On January 20, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in the case captioned Mortgage Grader, Inc. v. First Choice Loan Services Inc., NYLX, Inc. This case involves patent claims directed to systems and methods for assisting borrowers to obtain loans. Mortgage Grader appealed the District…
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By Kevin E. Noonan, Michael Borella & Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, we presented a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2015." The webinar covered seven of the twenty stories that made it onto Patent Docs ninth annual list of top patent stories. Posts on our top twenty stories can be found…
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The PTAB at the Federal Circuit — Supplemental Evidence Edition By Andrew Williams — On New Year's Eve, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's denial of a motion to submit supplemental evidence pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.123(a), notwithstanding the fact that the motion was timely filed and relevant. In Redline Detection, LLC v. Star…
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Editor's note: This is the fourth article in a series on advancements in microbiome research and development. By Jessica Miles* and Anthony D. Sabatelli** — Early last month, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT held its second annual symposium, "Microbiome Meets Cancer and Immunology." This year's event came on the heels of…
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