Feb 27, 2019 | Intellectual Property law, News
By Jennifer T. Poochigian In Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, the Court affirmed a Federal Circuit decision invalidating the patent for Helsinns nausea drug Aloxi, based on patent laws Aon sale bar. In short, the Court found that the sale of an...
Sep 20, 2016 | Intellectual Property law, News
The America Invents Act (“AIA”) turned five years old last week. At the time of its adoption, independent inventors were hyper-focused on the switch from “First to Invent” to “First to File”. For example, NPR did a piece where they...
Jan 12, 2013 | Intellectual Property law, trademark
By Sherrie M. Flynn Read article here. By now, most individual inventors, as well as the companies that employ inventors, know that because of the America Invents Act (AIA), America has gone from a system of “first-to-invent” (the first person to invent has the rights...