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BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. v. Genzyme Therapeutic Products Limited Partnership

12012003 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 23, 2015)
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. v. Genzyme Therapeutic Products Limited Partnership

29 Cited authorities

  1. Graham v. John Deere Co.

    383 U.S. 1 (1966)   Cited 3,168 times   66 Legal Analyses
    Holding commercial success is a "secondary consideration" suggesting nonobviousness

  2. Pfizer v. Apotex

    480 F.3d 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2007)   Cited 376 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding the district court clearly erred when it failed to consider relevant prior art

  3. Muniauction v. Thomson Corp.

    532 F.3d 1318 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 246 times   62 Legal Analyses
    Holding it obvious to “apply the use of the Internet to existing electronic processes at a time when doing so was commonplace.”

  4. Medichem, S.A. v. Rolabo, S.L

    437 F.3d 1157 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 173 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that non-inventor's notebook did not corroborate reduction to practice because the non-inventor "did not testify regarding the notebook or the genuineness of its contents" and the district court was therefore "clearly reliant on the inventor to help identify the author of specific entries made in [the non-inventor's] notebook"

  5. In re Paulsen

    30 F.3d 1475 (Fed. Cir. 1994)   Cited 232 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding an inventor may define specific terms used to describe invention, but must do so "with reasonable clarity, deliberateness, and precision" and, if done, must "'set out his uncommon definition in some manner within the patent disclosure' so as to give one of ordinary skill in the art notice of the change" in meaning

  6. DyStar Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG v. C.H. Patrick Co.

    464 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 135 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding based on the record that "[t]he presence of certain secondary considerations of nonobviousness are insufficient as a matter of law to overcome our conclusion that the evidence only supports a legal conclusion that claim 1 would have been obvious"

  7. In re GPAC Inc.

    57 F.3d 1573 (Fed. Cir. 1995)   Cited 166 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In GPAC, for example, we found that a reference disclosing an equilibrium air door was reasonably pertinent to a patent directed to asbestos removal because they both addressed the same problem of "maintaining a pressurized environment while allowing for human ingress and egress."

  8. In re O'Farrell

    853 F.2d 894 (Fed. Cir. 1988)   Cited 167 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Finding patent obvious where the prior art provided a "reasonable expectation of success"

  9. Rambus Inc. v. Rea

    731 F.3d 1248 (Fed. Cir. 2013)   Cited 71 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Board erred when it found objective evidence lacked a nexus where at least some of the evidence related to the "patented design as a whole"

  10. In re Huang

    100 F.3d 135 (Fed. Cir. 1996)   Cited 93 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the inventor's opinion as to the purchaser's reason for buying the product is insufficient to demonstrate a nexus

  11. Rule 702 - Testimony by Expert Witnesses

    Fed. R. Evid. 702   Cited 27,267 times   273 Legal Analyses
    Adopting the Daubert standard

  12. Rule 403 - Excluding Relevant Evidence for Prejudice, Confusion, Waste of Time, or Other Reasons

    Fed. R. Evid. 403   Cited 23,041 times   84 Legal Analyses
    Adopting a similar standard, but requiring the probative value to be "substantially outweighed" by these risks

  13. Rule 402 - General Admissibility of Relevant Evidence

    Fed. R. Evid. 402   Cited 6,855 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Stating that relevant evidence is generally admissible at trial

  14. Rule 901 - Authenticating or Identifying Evidence

    Fed. R. Evid. 901   Cited 5,268 times   51 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[t]estimony that a matter is what it is claimed to be" is sufficient authentication

  15. Rule 802 - The Rule Against Hearsay

    Fed. R. Evid. 802   Cited 3,930 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing federal statutes, the Federal Rules of Evidence, or Supreme Court rules as sources for exceptions to the rule against hearsay

  16. Rule 902 - Evidence That Is Self-Authenticating

    Fed. R. Evid. 902   Cited 2,173 times   35 Legal Analyses
    Stating that "[p]rinted material purporting to be a newspaper or periodical" is self-authenticating

  17. Section 318 - Decision of the Board

    35 U.S.C. § 318   Cited 161 times   139 Legal Analyses
    Governing the incorporation of claims added via the operation of § 316(d)

  18. Section 42.100 - Procedure; pendency

    37 C.F.R. § 42.100   Cited 191 times   75 Legal Analyses
    Providing that the PTAB gives " claim . . . its broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in which it appears"

  19. Section 42.73 - Judgment

    37 C.F.R. § 42.73   Cited 18 times   59 Legal Analyses
    Regarding judgments

  20. Section 90.2 - Notice; service

    37 C.F.R. § 90.2   2 Legal Analyses

    (a)For an appeal under 35 U.S.C. 141 . (1) (i) In all appeals, the notice of appeal required by 35 U.S.C. 142 must be filed with the Director by electronic mail to the email address indicated on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's web page for the Office of the General Counsel. This electronically submitted notice will be accorded a receipt date, which is the date in Eastern Time when the correspondence is received in the Office, regardless of whether that date is a Saturday, Sunday,