Tag Archives: Federal Circuit

In a recent case, Eli Lilly and Co. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals International GmbH, the Federal Circuit upheld the validity of Teva’s patents directed to specific methods of treatment using an “effective amount” of certain antibodies. The court agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the claim preambles were limiting, and that obviousness […]

In a recent case, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc., the Federal Circuit expanded the meaning of the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. § 112(a). Let’s take a look at how the court arrived at this decision.  The claims at issue were directed to methods for sequencing nucleic acid (DNA) using […]

In a recent case, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. v. Cepheid, the Federal Circuit affirmed that claims directed to a nucleotide primer and claims directed to a detection method are invalid under 35 USC § 101. The patent covered primers and methods for a rapid detection of M. tuberculosis on the basis of the presence of […]