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Federal Circuit affirms Board decision invalidating Pfizer vaccine patents because claimed molecular weight was a result effective variable derivable by routine optimization.

March 25, 2024

Patent owner improperly dinged by Federal Circuit for correctly following Orange Book listing rules.

December 18, 2023

Increased survival claims survive validity challenge despite one prior art report of successful treatment and ongoing phase III clinical program.

July 08, 2023

Undue experimentation not required to synthesize novel prodrug.

April 17, 2022

Narrow use codes can also lead to failures by generic drug companies to carve-out critical label information.

January 03, 2022

Teva Pharmaceuticals fails to prove that dose reduction for mifepristone when co-administered with a strong CYP3A inhibitor would have been obvious.

December 27, 2021

PTAB rejects Examiner’s argument that crystalline form of an old compound would have been obvious based on obvious to try rationale.

December 05, 2021

PTAB distinguishes Supreme Court’s Myriad decision because salt represents new “chemical construct.”

March 16, 2021

Tablet that “targeted” a PK profile deemed incomprehensible

January 12, 2021