Year: 2020
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Arthrex: Advocating For Your Client" on March 12, 2020, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Adam Banks of Weil, Scott Kamholz of Covington & Burling, and Eliot Williams of Baker Botts will focus on the substantial and fast-moving legal activity unleased by the…
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "Linking an Invention to the Evidence: Strategic Considerations from Prosecution to Litigation" on March 19, 2020 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (EDT). Mark A. Borsos and Evan Kline-Wedeen of Fitch Even will discuss the following: • Establishing a nexus between evidence of commercial success of real-world products…
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By Bryan Helwig — About Life Sciences Court Report: We will periodically report on recently filed biotech and pharma litigation. Pfizer Inc. v. Viwit Pharmaceutical Co.1-20-cv-000160; filed January 31, 2020 in the District Court of Delaware • Plaintiffs: CP Pharmaceuticals International CV, PF Prism CV, Pfizer Inc., amd Pfizer Products Inc.• Defendant: Viwit…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Two papers were filed with the PTAB in Interference No. 106,155 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"). On February 13, 2020, the parties filed a…
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By Michael Borella — In 2014's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case, Justice Thomas famously wrote, "we need not labor to delimit the precise contours of the 'abstract ideas' category in this case." Instead, he found the claims of patentee Alice to have "no meaningful distinction" under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from those the…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Tuesday, the Federal Circuit issued a per curiam Order in NZNP Finance Ltd. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc., denying a petition for rehearing en banc filed by Plaintiffs-Appellants HZNP Finance Ltd. and Horizon Therapeutics USA, Inc. The Court also denied Plaintiffs-Appellants a panel rehearing. Circuit Judge Lourie, joined by Circuit…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The patent marking statute, codified at 35 U.S.C. § 287(a) appears straightforward: Patentees, and persons making, offering for sale, or selling within the United States any patented article for or under them, or importing any patented article into the United States, may give notice to the public that the same…
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By Bryan Helwig — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: We will periodically report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Abbott Laboratories v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp. PTAB Petition: IPR2020-00480; filed January 28, 2020. View Petition here. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 6,719,767, ″Device and a method for treatment of atrioventricular regurgitation," describes…
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February 26, 2020 – "Blocking Patents in Prosecution Strategy and Corporate IP Strategy after Acorda" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) March 5, 2020 – "Enhancing Diversity & Inclusion in IP Law and Beyond" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) – 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm (ET), Washington, DC March 11, 2020 –…
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The New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association (NJIPLA) will be holding a Patent Litigation Seminar from 12:00 to 5:30 pm on March 11, 2020 in Iselin, NJ. The seminar will offer presentations on the following topics: • Patent Cases at the Supreme Court: From Petitions to CVSGs to Arguments, and Everything in Between• Written Description…
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