April Breyer Menon, Author at Venable's BiologicsHQ

Two Bites of The Apple: Five Interesting Facts About Drug Patent IPR Final Written Decisions

by April Breyer Menon | Oct 23, 2017

As of July 20, 2017, there have been at least 363 IPR petitions filed against patents that were listed in the FDA Orange Book, and 74 IPR petitions filed against patents that have been identified as reading on FDA Purple Book (CDER) listed biologic drugs. Of these 437...

Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection – August/September 2017

by April Breyer Menon | Oct 5, 2017

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Amgen Obtains $70 Million Damages Award Against Hospira For Infringement Of Amgen’s Erythropoetin Patent

by April Breyer Menon | Sep 27, 2017

On September 22, 2017, a District of Delaware jury in the matter Amgen v. Hospira, 15-cv-839-RGA (D. Del.) returned a verdict awarding Amgen $70 million for Hospira’s infringement of an Amgen patent covering the manufacture of Amgen’s erythropoetin product Epogen®....

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements For Determining “Regular And Established Place Of Business” Under Patent Venue Statute

by April Breyer Menon | Sep 21, 2017

On September 21, 2017, a Federal Circuit panel rejected an Eastern District of Texas judge’s proposed four-factor test for determining whether venue is proper over a defendant in a patent infringement action under the “regular and established place of business” prong...

Pharma at the PTAB

by April Breyer Menon | Sep 1, 2017

April Breyer Menon, Corinne Atton and Ha Kung Wong reveal that PTAB decisions have been consistent but drug patents challenged multiple times are more likely to be found unpatentable. There has been some concern regarding the statistics periodically issued by the...

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