In the long-awaited decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is unconstitutionally structured, but held that the correct remedy is more limited than the one the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had granted. Instead of…
As previously reported, in February 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued final written decisions in two IPR proceedings initiated by Sanofi challenging the U.S. Patent No. 8,679,487 (the ’487 patent) owned by Immunex. In IPR2017-01884, the Board held that the challenged claims of the ‘487 patent were unpatentable…
We previously reported on the bevacizumab preliminary injunction appeal in Genentech v. Immunex Rhode Island Corp., Fed. Cir. Case No. 19-2155. The notice of oral argument was posted today and is scheduled for June 3, 2020.