Author Archives: Warren Woessner

Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo – Finessing the Correlations Trap?

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Warren Woessner

In The Cleveland Clinic Foundation v. True Health Diagnostics, the Fed. Cir. panel held that a claim to a diagnostic method for determining a test subject’s risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CD) by comparing MPO levels in the bodily fluid … Continue reading →

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Honeywell International, Inc. v. Mexichem Amanco Holdings – Revenge of the Chemist Judges II

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Warren Woessner

Before reading this post, please read my post of July 19, 2017 about Millennium Pharms. v. Sandoz, and you will “get” the title. Judges Lourie and Newman both dissented from refusal of the court to rehear the holding in Schering … Continue reading →

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Inequitable Conduct Intent Prong Due to Litigation Misconduct

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Warren Woessner

In Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v. Merus N.V., Appeal No. 2016-1346 (Fed. Cir., July 27, 2017), a split three-judge panel of Prost, Wallach and Newman (Newman dissenting) affirmed the district court’s ruling that claim 1 of Regeneron’s U.S. Pat. No. 8,502,018 is … Continue reading →

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Millennium Pharm. v. Sandoz, Inc. – Revenge of the Chemical Judges

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Warren Woessner

In the 2003 panel decision in Schering Corp. v. Geneva Pharm., Inc., the panel rejected “the contention that inherent anticipation requires recognition [of the claim element not found] in the prior art.” The claims were directed to a bioactive metabolite … Continue reading →