Sovereign Immunity Does Not Prevent Exclusive Licensee from Pursuing Infringement Suit Alone
Gensetix, Inc. v. The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System v. Baylor College of Medicine, Diakonos Research…
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Federal Circuit Rejects Request to Adopt New Inventorship Standards
Earlier this month the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s determination that two scientists should be named as inventors in…
Taking Advantage of the Factual Nature of the Written Description Requirement to Overcome Rejections
Life sciences patent practitioners know that written description rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 112 for genus claims nearly always refer…
Supreme Court Curbs Forum Shopping in Infringement Suits
Last month, in its decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S. __ (May 22,…
Federal Circuit Declines to Clarify Secret Sales Under § 102
In December of last year, we wrote about the interpretation of “otherwise available to the public” as was being litigated…
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Patent Venue Case
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to TC Heartland, LLC, a liquid sweetener company based in Indiana…