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Category: Post-Grant Proceedings
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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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By John Cravero — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Allergan, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00576; filed January 6, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 8,685,930 ("Methods of providing therapeutic effects using cyclosporin components," issued April…
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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. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Genentech, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00047; filed October 11, 2016. PTAB Trial Instituted Document entered January 3, 2017. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 6,331,415 ("Methods…
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No CBM Review for On-Line Registration Patent Having Financial Applications and Uses By Joseph Herndon — Twilio Inc. filed a Petition requesting covered business method patent review of claims 1–18 of U.S. Patent No. 9,300,792. The Board decided that no covered business method patent review would be instituted because the '792 patent is not a…
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By John Cravero and Richard Martin — 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: IPR2017-00510; filed December 20, 2016. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 7,981,158 ("Patient selectable joint arthroplasty devices and surgical…
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By John Cravero and Richard Martin — 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: IPR2017-00487; filed December 14, 2016. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 9,295,482 ("Patient selectable joint arthroplasty devices and surgical…
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By John Cravero and Richard Martin — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. MonoSol Rx, LLC v. ICOS Corp. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00412; filed December 6, 2016. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 6,943,166 ("Compositions comprising phosphodiesterase inhabitors for the treatment of…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, in In re Depomed, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two instituted grounds in an inter partes review rendered claims 1, 3-5, and 10-13 of Depomed's U.S. Patent No. 6,723,340 unpatentable as obvious. The '340…
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By John Cravero and Richard Martin — About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. McKesson Corp. v. My Health, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00312; filed November 29, 2016. Patent at Issue: U.S. Patent No. 6,612,985 ("Method and system for monitoring and treating a…
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