method-of-treatment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1604 Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein Whether courts may disregard the express claim term "recombinant" so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o…
19-1103 INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is…
18-817 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural …