Last week we posted about the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Cuozzo Speed Techs., LLC, deferring to the PTAB’s application of the “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard in IPR proceedings. The Federal Circuit recently gave deference to the PTAB in another context in Redline Detection LLC v. Star Envirotech Inc., granting the PTAB discretion in […]
The Federal Circuit held that the Administrative Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) decision to institute an Inter Partes Review Proceeding (“IPR”) is not reviewable by the Federal Circuit on appeal. See Achates Reference Publishing, Inc. v. Apple Inc. This decision arose from an appeal by the patentee, Achates, of the PTAB’s decision that several […]
In ruling on a “follow-on” inter partes review (IPR), the PTAB held that estoppel under 35 U.S.C. §315(e)(1) does not extent to grounds set forth in a petition that are denied as being redundant to a previous IPR proceeding. Apotex Inc. v. Wyeth LLC, IPR2015-00873, Paper 8 (P.T.A.B. Sept. 16, 2015). The Facts. Apotex filed […]
Inter partes review became available on September 16, 2012. Since then, over 3,400 IPR petitions have been filed. The USPTO implemented a first set of changes, or “quick fixes,” in March, and now, the USPTO seeks to improve IPR via a host of additional proposed changes. But will they result in any real change? Only […]
On July 22, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board rejected Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC’s America Invents Act (AIA) challenge to Endo Pharmaceuticals’ patent related to Opana ER. The patent at issue (the ‘216 patent) relates to oral controlled-release pharmaceutical formulations comprising oxymorphone and methods of using it for sustained pain relief. In its Final Written […]
Last week, an unconventional new player launched its first drug patent attack. The hedge fund Hayman Credes Master Fund, L.P., under the name Coalition For Affordable Drugs (ADROCA) LLC, filed an IPR petition against U.S. Pat. No. 8,663,685. (IPR2015-00720.) The patent, which covers the drug AMPYRA (dalfampridine), is owned by Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. This is […]