secondary-considerations

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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, as this Court has held, the objective indicia of non-obviousness should be analyzed flexibly to combat hindsight bias or instead subject to t…
20-158 SRAM, LLC v. FOX Factory, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-103 commercial-success federal-circuit graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia patent-act patent-claim patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill secondary-considerations statutory-interpretation In Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1 (1966), this Court recognized the pivotal importance of "objective indicia" of nonobviousness (…
18-823 ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations Whether evidence of "secondary considerations" (e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented invention) is less important, functioning at …