On March 7, 2019, Kashiv Biosciences filed two IPR petitions (IPR2019-00791 and IPR2019-00797) against Amgen process patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 8,940,878 and 9,643,997. The ‘878 and ‘997 patents are directed to methods to purify proteins expressed in a non-native soluble form in a non-mammalian expression system. Kashiv asserts that claims 7-8, 11-12,…