pharmaceutical-innovation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1132 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied federal-circuit non-obviousness obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation secondary-considerations Whether the objective indicia of non-obviousness should be analyzed flexibly to combat hindsight bias or subject to the Federal Circuit's rigid rules …
20-380 Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the Federal Circuit's genus-claim-specific enablement rule and separate 'possession' requirement are consistent with 35 U.S.C. § 112(a)
18-1280 Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Amici (5) blocking-patent-doctrine blocking-patents burden-of-proof graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia obviousness patent patent-law patent-obviousness pharmaceutical-innovation prior-art Whether objective indicia of nonobviousness may be partially or entirely discounted where the development of the invention was allegedly 'blocked' by …