Patent Baristas

In a Sign o’ the Times, Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb have reached a settlement agreement with Apotex in the patent infringement lawsuit pending between the parties in the US District Court. The suit relates to the validity of a composition of matter patent for clopidogrel bisulfate, the active ingredient in Plavix. Plavix is one of […]

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in what seems to be a confusion over neutralization of an acid versus a salt, held that a claim for an acid is not literally infringed by a salt in Kao Corp. and Andrew Jergens Corp. v. Unilever and Conopco. Earlier, the U.S. District Court ruled that […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, in Teva Pharmaceuticals v. FDA and Apotex (05-5401 & 05-5460), held that in a suit challenging agency action, the courts are not to choose between competing meanings of an ambiguous statute when the agency hasn’t weighed in first. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act grants a […]

In an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times entitled “Patently Ridiculous,” the editors state that “something has gone very wrong with the United States patent system. That’s not really “new” as far as patent reform claims of this sort go but the editors do finally concede that the problem lies “not just with the […]

In Rockey, Inc. v. Cordis Corp. (05-1236), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that determining patent infringement is a two-step process consisting of the court construing the claims and then comparing the allegedly infringing device to the properly construed claims. Arlaine & Gina Rockey, Inc. (“AGR”) filed an action against Cordis […]

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The biggest invention news this week has not been American Inventor but an update to the way patent applications are filed. While we’ve been participating in the beta testing program for months now, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) has officially released the new electronic filing system (EFS-Web) that will allow applicants to […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an initial list of priority research projects that could advance innovation in medical products. The announcement of the Critical Path Opportunities List signals the next major step in FDA’s Critical Path Initiative aimed at modernizing medical product development, so new medical discoveries are brought to patients faster and […]