On the morning of July 11, Chief Judge Prost, Judge Linn, and Judge Hughes heard oral argument in Genentech v. Hospira, Case No. 18-1959. Genentech appealed from a final written decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on IPR2016-01771 that invalidated U.S. Patent No. 7,622,115 (the ’115 patent)…
On July 11, the Federal Circuit will hear oral argument in Genentech v. Hospira. In that case, Genentech appealed the PTAB’s final written decision in IPR2016-01771, which concluded that all five claims of U.S. Patent No. US 7,622,115 (the ’115 patent) were invalid as unpatentable as obvious over two pieces of…