by April Breyer Menon | Jun 29, 2017
The March 2017 statistics issued by the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) report that across all technologies, all challenged patent claims are found patentable in only 19 percent of inter partes review (IPR) final written decisions.1 This is an...
by April Breyer Menon | Jun 12, 2017
Download PDF Download PDF Corinne Atton has experience litigating cases concerning a wide range of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, including DNA sequences, DNA sequencing technologies, recombinant...
by April Breyer Menon | Jun 12, 2017
In a June 12, 2017 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the United States Supreme Court in Sandoz v. Amgen ruled that, under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), biosimilar makers can give notice of commercial marketing before the...
by April Breyer Menon | Jun 9, 2017
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by April Breyer Menon | May 1, 2017
On May 1, 2017, a Federal Circuit panel in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2016-1284, 2016-1787, held four pharmaceutical patents invalid under the on-sale bar of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). Three patents were governed by the version of...