On Thursday, June 15, 2017, at 12:30 PM EST, Goodwin will host a webinar discussing TC Heartland’s impact on where to bring Hatch-Waxman and biosimilars litigation. The Supreme Court’s decision in TC Heartland, LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC has reshaped venue in patent litigation, but the Court left…
Today, the Supreme Court ruled in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC that for venue purposes in patent litigations, a domestic corporation “resides” only in its state of incorporation. This ruling reflects a significant departure from current patent litigation practice, which treated a domestic corporation as residing…
We post frequently about IPRs here on the blog, because they are an efficient and relatively quick way to get a decision on validity of the patents that cover drugs, biologic or otherwise. In Merck & Cie v. Gnosis S.p.A., the Supreme Court denied certiorari after the Federal Circuit affirmed that the standard…