On Remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit applied the broad scope of the research exemption to the Integra case and reversed the district court’s judgment of infringement. Integra Lifesciences v. Merck KGaA (02-1052-1065). Integra Life Sciences has five patents relating to peptides that contain the RGD sequence […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will vote today whether to accept for review Zoltek Corporation v. United States, No. 06-1155. Pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing companies are closely watching the case, which centers on the types of protections, if any, that are available to a patent-holder whose inventions have been infringed by the Federal Government or its […]