INSIGHTS | YMF Law Tokyo Japan

Jun 28, 2021
4 min

Error to Require Proof of Prior Art Enablement in Inter Partes Review Petition

The court ruled that “regardless of the forum, prior art patents and publications enjoy a presumption of enablement, and the patentee . ....

IPR Petition’s Failure to Challenge Patent Claims with Particularity Forfeited Meritorious Arguments

York Faulkner

Jun 22, 2021
5 min

IPR Petition’s Failure to Challenge Patent Claims with Particularity Forfeited Meritorious Arguments

This case provides a sobering and cautionary example of the strictness with which the Board and Federal Circuit interpret the procedural...

Applicability of Patent Safe Harbor to Conduct Supporting Foreign Regulatory Approvals

York Faulkner

Jun 14, 2021
13 min

Applicability of Patent Safe Harbor to Conduct Supporting Foreign Regulatory Approvals

. . . Some aspects of the safe harbor, however, are not so well charted, especially where the U.S.-based drug and device development...

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