The Federal Circuit affirmed that Amgen’s patents claiming a broad functional genus of anti-PCSK9 antibodies were invalid for lack of enablement, because the specification failed to teach skilled artisans how to make the full range of claimed antibodies without undue experimentation.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that Amgen’s antibody patents directed to an entire genus of antibodies binding to a specific PCSK9 epitope lacked adequate enablement — holding that claiming a broad functional genus of antibodies without enabling the full scope of the claim requires undue experim
The Federal Circuit held that technical documents submitted to video coding standards bodies and distributed at widely attended conferences qualify as prior art “printed publications” based on public accessibility, even without formal library indexing.
The Federal Circuit held that a patent owner’s disclaimer of its right to pursue infringement damages in a parallel district court proceeding could moot a challenger’s appeal of an adverse IPR final written decision, giving patent owners a powerful procedural tool.
The Federal Circuit held that Google forfeited its claim construction arguments by failing to raise them before the examiner or the PTAB, clarifying the important procedural distinction between waiver and forfeiture in patent appeals.
The Federal Circuit granted Apple’s mandamus petition, holding that district courts must resolve venue transfer motions before proceeding on the merits, and issued a writ ordering the Western District of Texas to transfer the case to Northern California.
The Federal Circuit held that venue in Hatch-Waxman patent infringement cases is proper only where the defendant’s ANDA submission occurred, not in any district where the generic drug might eventually be sold, resolving a split among district courts.
The Federal Circuit upheld TecSec’s multi-level document security patents as patent eligible under § 101 and reversed the district court’s exclusion of inducement evidence, finding that the claimed data-encryption system represented a specific technical improvement rather than an abstract idea.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s invalidity ruling on Immunex’s IL-4 receptor antibody patent, upholding a broad claim construction of ‘human antibodies’ that encompassed humanized antibodies and finding the claims obvious over prior art.
The Federal Circuit reversed a judgment for Biogen and reinstated a jury verdict of invalidity, holding that a recombinant polypeptide cannot be distinguished from its native counterpart for novelty purposes when the molecules are structurally identical — a product-by-process analysis applies even w