Introduction The Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision in Hikma v. Amarin, holding that Amarin did not meet its pleading burden of plausibly alleging that Hikma induced infringement of Amarin’...
On March 5, 2025, the Federal Circuit rejected the ITC’s longstanding practice of excluding certain types of activities from qualifying as “domestic industry” activities under Section 337(a)(3)(B), fi...
In a highly anticipated decision in Allergan v. MSN Labs., the Federal Circuit held yesterday that claims in a first-filed, first-issued, later-expiring patent cannot be invalidated for double patenti...
On August 28, 2023, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in In re Cellect, LLC, affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) cancellation of claims for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP)...
On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Amgen Inc. et al. v. Sanofi et al., Number 21-757, holding that a patent claiming an entire class of processes, machines, manufactures, or compo...
Random Judicial Assignments Will Likely End Judge Albright’s Grip on Patent Cases Yesterday, the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas announced that all patent infringement cases filed in Waco...