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It has been a busy week at the Circuit. In Comcast v. Sprint the Circuit affirms a $7.5 million ‎judgment that includes prejudgment interest running from the date of the first-to-issue patent ‎instead of apportioning the interest based on the issue…
Written by Neil G. Anderson and Benjamin Anger The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s final written decision holding that claims from Michael Meiresonne’s patent were obvious in Meiresonne v. Google, Inc., Case No. 16-1755 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 7,…
Written by Mark E. Davis and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. The PTAB issued two final written decisions upholding The University of Pennsylvania’s claims to methods of treating high cholesterol based, in part, on commercial success and the meaning of a…
Last week, we released the top 10 patent owners whose patents had been challenged the most since the inception of Inter-Partes Review (IPR). Zond ranked first with a total of 125 IPR challenges filed against ten of its patents. This week, our Data Science…
Eli Lilly is not likely to think of the Circuit’s handling of its successful IPR as an “intimate ‎moment,” given that the Circuit reversed a finding of invalidity of all of the claims of a patent ‎directed against its Cialis ED…
Practical Impact of Joinder Practice, Stricter Estoppel IPR estoppel is established under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2), which provides that “the petitioner in an inter partes review of a claim in a patent . . . that results in a final written decision…
Written by Sabrina Wang and Adam Powell The Federal Circuit held that a rat study in a provisional application and a conversion method in an uncited reference did not support the claimed human dosage form in Los Angeles Biomed. Research Inst. v. Eli Lilly…
Written by Diana E. Wade and Bridget A. Smith The Federal Circuit held that the PTAB may consider legal conclusions of obviousness by experts, but the expert papers must make adequate factual findings and provide a satisfactory explanation as to…
Written by Scott Raevsky and David T. Kim In a final written decision, the Board denied a patent owner’s request for a certificate of correction filed shortly after IPR institution in Douglas Dynamics, L.L.C. v. Meyer Products, LLC, IPR2015-01839,…
The last few weeks, our Data Science Team analyzed the most active petitioners in Inter-Partes Review (IPR) cases. Now we have turned our attention towards the patent owners in IPR cases. Our analysis shows that since IPR’s inception in 2012 through…
The real news this past week is not from the Circuit but from the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Life Technologies v. Promega case. There, the Supreme Court reversed the ‎Circuit’s ruling that shipping a single component of a ‎claimed…
Written by Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. and Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision upholding Pozen’s ulcer reducing Vimovo® claims based on unexpected results in Coalition For Affordable Drugs VII LLC v. Pozen Inc.,…
