Alza Corporation v. Mylan Laboratories

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “teaching of prior art” alone, without expert testimony, can support a finding of motivation to combine
• stating that the motivation to combine does not have to be explicitly stated in the prior art, and can be supported by testimony of an expert witness regarding knowledge of a person of skill in the art at the time of invention
• “The presence or absence of a motivation to combine references in an obviousness determination is a pure question of fact.”
• no other con- stituent made up more than 32 percent of any sample
• discussing reasonable expectation of success

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).