Litigation

Antibodies, Biologics, Case Law, Damages, Infringement, Injunction, Litigation, United Kingdom, Validity

, (Bristows)/

Whilst being wary of placing too much emphasis on statistics (the phrase “lies, damn lies and statistics” comes to mind), the authors have seen figures which suggest that the last ten years have consistently seen English patent litigation outcomes which are overall less favourable to the patentee than their opponents. That is until 2017, when…

Infringement, Injunction, Legal costs, Litigation, Netherlands

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The Hague courts are not reluctant to cross borders in patent litigation. The Dutch cross-border injunction is one (in)famous example. Maybe it’s the lack of mountains providing – on the spare sunny days – clear views to foreign skies. In two recent cases The Hague District Court has embraced a pan-European approach to the threat…

Biologics, China, Litigation, Pharmaceutical patent

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On October 8, 2017, the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council jointly issued a special opinion on the reform of drug and medical device approval system (“Innovation Opinion”). The Innovation Opinion together with an earlier China Food and Drug Administration (“CFDA”) document (“Circular No. 55”) issued in May 2017 (collectively “Reform Opinion”), propose that…

Case Law, Infringement, Inventive step, Litigation, Novelty, Prior art, Revocation, United Kingdom, Validity

, (Bristows)/

Around this time last year, in Edwards Lifesciences v Boston Scientific [2017], His Honour Judge Hacon (sitting as a High Court Judge) had the opportunity to analyse two interesting aspects of UK patent law: (i) the law of implied disclosures and anticipation; and (ii) the importance of so-called secondary evidence in the evaluation of inventive…

Litigation, Pharma, Pharmaceutical patent, United States of America

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Over the last few decades, the United States has been incrementally harmonizing its patent law with the rest of the world.  Those efforts continued with the signing of the America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011.  For example, the AIA created a first inventor-to-file patent system, while all but eliminating the best mode requirement. One area…

Litigation, Pharma, Pharmaceutical patent, United States of America

(Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP)/

Three pending cases have the potential to reshape – or even eliminate – inter partes review, a procedure for challenging patent validity introduced by the 2011 America Invents Act (“AIA”).  On November 27, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two of those cases.  In Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group,…

Litigation, Pharma, Pharmaceutical patent, United States of America

(Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP)/ /1 Comment

Allergan’s assignment of the patents on one of its blockbuster drugs to an American Indian tribe in an attempt to dismiss a USPTO inter partes review (IPR) proceeding on “tribal sovereign immunity” grounds has shaken up the patent bar – with some dismissing this as, at most, a temporary loophole and others saying “why didn’t…