Patent Baristas

The Supreme Court finally heard oral hearings in the Bilski v. Doll case.  Here, the Court was asked to consider whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that a “process” must be tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or transform a particular article into a different state or thing (“machine-or-transformation” test), to be eligible [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take up the In re Bilski case.  The Court will review a decision in a patent case which questions what things are patentable, including software and business strategies.  The applicants have filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court to appeal from the U.S. Court [...]

In a follow-up on our earlier discussion regarding the Supreme Court’s broad scope of the research exemption to the Integra case, the question came up asking if a patented delivery formulation — say, a sustained release formulation as opposed to a therapeutic itself — would fall within the exemption from infringement under the Food and [...]

On Remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit applied the broad scope of the research exemption to the Integra case and reversed the district court’s judgment of infringement. Integra Lifesciences v. Merck KGaA (02-1052-1065).
Integra Life Sciences has five patents relating to peptides that contain the RGD sequence of [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court will vote today whether to accept for review Zoltek Corporation v. United States, No. 06-1155. Pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing companies are closely watching the case, which centers on the types of protections, if any, that are available to a patent-holder whose inventions have been infringed by the Federal Government or its [...]