On Friday, May 29, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (CTAP), an initiative which is intended to improve access to treatments, vaccines and other medical technologies which are developed in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.…
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. et. al. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc. et. al. No. 2017-2078, 2017-2134 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 10, 2018) Background The Federal Circuit's ANDA Acorda decision affirming the district court's decision to invalidate several Acorda patents under 35 USC 103 was in my…
When I first started my intellectual property (IP) career in 1983, I was a patent examiner in the chemical arts at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). I worked in one law firm for 28 years, a second firm for about…