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Month: October 2008
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit today issued its decision in the Ciprofloxacin antitrust litigation, in an opinion that addressed the extent to which a patent-holding innovator drug company can enter into an agreement with a generic competitor that keeps the generic drug off the market. Bayer holds U.S. Patent No. 4,670,444 claiming…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Wednesday Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will be participating in their third, and final, presidential debate. While the third debate will address the economy and domestic policy issues, there is a strong likelihood, particularly in view of the current financial crisis, that U.S. patent policy will draw little…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On October 2, 2008, Judge William Young of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts issued his 150-page opinion in Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. , Amgen’s patent infringement suit over Roche’s Mircera® drug product (see "Victory for Amgen in District Court Decision – Part I"). …
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By Donald Zuhn — Patents Online, LLC, the company behind FreePatentsOnline, today announced the release of a companion online service, SumoBrain. The service, which was launched this summer, offers an alternative to patent search pay services by providing free cross-collection searching, portfolios, saved search capabilities, alerts, bulk PDF download capabilities, and collaboration tools. …
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Due to some problems associated with the renewal of our alternate domain names, the Patent Docs weblog can no longer be reached via the patentdocs.net or patentdocs.us web addresses. We recommend that you replace bookmarks to either of the above addresses with the following address: http://www.patentdocs.typepad.com/
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases, and a few interesting cases will be selected for periodic monitoring. Invitrogen Corp. v. Oxford Biomedical Research, Inc. et al.3:08-cv-00599; filed October 8, 2008 in the Western District of Wisconsin Declaratory judgment of…
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October 15, 2008 – Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA October 15-16, 2008 – Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes*** (Center for Business Intelligence) – Philadelphia, PA October 15-16, 2008 – Advanced Courses (Patent Resources Group) – Santa Ana Pueblo, NM October 15-17, 2008 – Maximizing Pharmaceutical…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit today issued an Order, pursuant to Federal Circuit Rule 36, affirming the District Court’s grant of a preliminary injunction in Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Amgen’s patent infringement suit over Roche’s Mircera® drug product. The District Court granted the preliminary injunction on February…
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On Wednesday, we published a request from Dr. Richard Belzer to patent practitioners and patent applicants to submit comments regarding the Ex parte Appeal Rule to the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) (see "Unhappy with the Ex parte Appeal Rule? Read This Now — Updated"). Because the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has not…
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By Christopher P. Singer — We have learned from one of our foreign associates that the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that it will launch an online priority document exchange (PDX) service with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) beginning on October 14, 2008. The KIPO has a similar PDX program…
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