Patent Baristas

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take up the In re Bilski case.  The Court will review a decision in a patent case which questions what things are patentable, including software and business strategies.  The applicants have filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court to appeal from the U.S. Court […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) ordered the reexamination of Merck’s biggest selling product, Singulair.  The challenged patent, U.S. Patent No. 5,565,473 (“Unsaturated Hydroxyalkylquinoline Acids as Leukotriene Antagonists,” issued October 15, 1996), covers montelukast sodium, the active ingredient in the $4.5 billion-a-year allergy and asthma drug. The request for reexam, No. 90/009,432, was made […]

The American Conference Institute’s 11th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents: Comprehensive & Practical Biotech Patent Prosecution and Litigation Strategies for an Evolving Legal Climate will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Boston, MA, on September 30-October 1. At the conference, I will be on a panel discussion with Warren Woessner of Schwegman Lundberg & […]

ide·a·tion \ˌī-dÄ“-ˈā-shÉ™n\ noun (c. 1818): the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas. BIOSTART, a life science start-up center, invites you to participate in an ideation seminar, a practical and fun way to identify possible products or services that you can develop through a new start-up company. If you know someone who […]

After a final judgment upholding the validity of the Procter & Gamble Company U.S. Patent 5,583,122, Teva Pharmaceuticals appealed to the US United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit claiming invalidity defenses of obviousness and obviousness-type double patenting.  It fell on deaf ears as the Federal Circuit affirmed the validity. P&G v. Teva […]

Altana and Wyeth were thwarted in their attempt to block Teva Pharmaceuticals from infringing U.S. Patent No. 4,758,579, directed to the compound pantoprazole, the active ingredient in Altana’s antiulcer drug Protonix®. The compound pantoprazole belongs to a class of compounds known as proton pump inhibitors (“PPIs”) that are used to treat gastric acid disorders in […]

After Autogenomics sued Oxford Gene Technology in U.S. District Court for a declaratory judgment of invalidity and non-infringement of claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,054,270, the court dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed because the district court had neither general nor specific personal […]

Gene Quinn over at IP Watchdog is doing a survey to see what sites people think are the top patent blogs.  We’re not sure if there can ever be a list of top blogs given the differences in focus but it is a way to discover some new patent blogs, so take a look. The […]