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Patent Office Bats Down Ariad’s ‘Hail Mary Claims’ In Reexamination

In my earlier post on Ariad v Lilly, there is a detailed discussion of the Federal Circuit’s recent decision that invalidated all of the claims-in-suit for failure to meet the written description requirement. The Federal Circuit rejected Lilly’s attempts to … Continue reading

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Kubin Analysis Continued

My last post began a rather selective analysis of In re Kubin, which the Federal Circuit decided on April 3, 2009 (see previous post for citations to this and related decisions). Kubin’s claims to DNA molecules encoding sequences including that … Continue reading

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