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Month: June 2009
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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. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. et al. v. Sandoz, Inc.1:09-cv-05210; filed June 3, 2009 in the Southern District of New York Infringement of U.S.…
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June 16-17, 2009 – Biotech Patenting (C5) – Munich, Germany June 17, 2009 – The Future of Reverse Payment Settlements: Insider's Guide to Imminent Antitrust Policy Changes (American Conference Institute) – 1:00-2:30 PM (EST) June 19, 2009 – Patent Enforcement & Early Stage Litigation (Law Seminars International) – San Francisco, CA June 22-27, 2009 –…
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a two-day seminar entitled: "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2009: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 23-24, 2009 in New York, NY and on August 17-18, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. At the New York seminar, PLI's faculty will offer presentations on the following topics: • Ethics in…
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American Conference Institute (ACI) will be offering a webinar entitled: "The Future of Reverse Payment Settlements: Insider's Guide to Imminent Antitrust Policy Changes" on June 17, 2009 from 1:00-2:30 PM (EST). Thomas Barnett, former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and co-chair of Covington & Burling's Antitrust & Consumer Law…
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By Donald Zuhn — Plaintiff-appellee Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas was not alone yesterday in filing a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the March 20 decision in Tafas v. Doll (see Patent Docs report). Also seeking a rehearing of the Federal Circuit's decision in Tafas were plaintiffs-appellees SmithKline Beecham Corp., SmithKline…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit clarified the role of the written description requirement in interference practice today in an opinion by Judge Rader, one of the Court's most severe critics of its written description jurisprudence. Unlike the situation where the written description requirement is used to invalidate patents (which is the…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, counsel for Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas filed a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the decision issued by the Federal Circuit in Tafas v. Doll. In that decision, issued on March 20, a split panel determined that Rules 75, 78, 114, and 265 are procedural,…
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By Donald Zuhn — Yesterday, Ariad Pharmaceuticals filed a petition for a panel rehearing of the decision issued by the Federal Circuit in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co. In that decision, issued on April 3, the Federal Circuit reversed the District Court's denial of Lilly's motion for JMOL in view of…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — As reported today in a Patent Docs post, Economist Alex Brill (at right) has proposed that Congress include in patent reform legislation provisions "putting some teeth" into the penalties available for inequitable conduct, presumably as a way to discourage it. These "teeth" include "criminal penalties, punitive damages and jail…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In a notice posted on June 3, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of an on-line system that will allow registered practitioners to update their official address of record with the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) electronically, without the need to submit paper forms. …
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