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A duo of cases from the Federal Circuit has added complexities to the drafting of patent applications for antibody inventions, explain Hailey Bureau of BSKB and Olayinka Oladele of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. ....
As a well-planned strategy, joint defence is popular among large patent-holding companies to file patent infringement lawsuits that involve multiple defendants. This is particularly true in cases where a patent holder in the pharmaceutical field seeks to enforce its rights against many generic manufacturers. ....
In In re: SurgiSil, L.L.P., No. 2020-1940, the Federal Circuit reversed the Board’s decision affirming an examiner’s rejection of Surgisil’s design patent application. Court held that the design claim is limited to the article of manufacture identified in the claim. ....
In re: SurgiSil, Case No. 20-1940, Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board PTAB decision, upholding an examiner’s rejection of a lip implant design patent as anticipated by a non-analogous art tool. ....
A recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has fundamentally altered the law on prior art anticipation for design patent applications. In this. ....