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Category: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Cosmo Technologies Ltd. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-01034; filed March 9, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 8,784,888 ("Controlled Release and Taste Masking Oral Pharmaceutical Compositions," issued June…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Pain Point Medical Systems, Inc. v. Blephex LLC PTAB Petition: IPR2016-01670; filed August 24, 2016. PTAB Trial Instituted; entered March 1, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 9,039,718 ("Method and…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. InnoPharma Licensing, LLC v AstraZeneca AB PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00900; filed February 17, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 8,329,680 ("Formulation," issued December 11, 2012) claims a method for treating a…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. et al. v Janssen Oncology, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00853; filed February 8, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 8,822,438 ("Methods and compositions for treating cancer," issued…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Reckitt Benckiser LLC v. Ansell Healthcare Products LLC PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00063; filed October 12, 2016. PTAB Trial Instituted; entered February 1, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 9,074,027 ("Dip-formed synthetic…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — In February, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rendered judgment that there was no interference-in-fact between the claims in interference between the Regents of the University of California/Berkeley and the Broad Institute. Yesterday, UC/Berkeley filed a Notice of Appeal at the Federal…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. ConforMIS, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00778; filed January 26, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 8,062,302 ("Surgical tools for arthroplasty," issued November 22, 2011) claims patient-specific…
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By Andrew Williams — On March 31, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board ("PTAB" or "Board") granted a motion to amend claims in Amerigen Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. Shire LLC (IPR2015-02009). This is, of course, an uncommon event. Depending on how you keep score, the PTAB had previously only granted less than ten such motions…
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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Complex Innovations, LLC. v. AstraZeneca AB PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00631; filed January 9, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 7,759,328 ("Composition for inhalation," issued July 20, 2010) claims pharmaceutical composition comprising…
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By Andrew Williams — In inter partes review proceedings, is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board required to take into account a final district court determination of non-obviousness of the same claims based on the same prior art? In Novartis AG v. Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc., the Federal Circuit responded in…
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