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Caraco – The Little Counterclaim That Could?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Warren Woessner

I normally try to steer clear of issues raised in Hatch-Waxman litigation between the “innovators” and the “generics,” unless it raises specific points of patent law of general interest – there is just so much of it, and other blogs … Continue reading →

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Supreme Courts decides Stanford v. Roche – Clarifies Scope of Bayh-Dole Act

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Warren Woessner

On June 6, 2011, the Supreme Court rejected Stanford’s arguments that provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act created university ownership rights to inventions made by university employees with federal funding. (A copy of the decision is found at the end of … Continue reading →

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Therasense Makes Sense of Inequitable Conduct Defense

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Warren Woessner

  viagra online canada On May 25th, the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a decision reversing and remanded the district court’s holding that the patent-in-suit was invalid due to inequitable conduct. (A copy of the decision can be found … Continue reading →

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Appeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Ban

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Warren Woessner

On April 29th, in Sherley v. Sebelius, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir., (a copy is available at the end of this post) overturned the injunction imposed by the district court, which had blocked the implementation of … Continue reading →

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