Forest Laboratories, LLC v. Sigmapharm Laboratories, LLC

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• finding that limitation contained in patent’s dependent claim 4 also applied to patent’s independent claim 1 based on language in the patent’s specification despite the fact that the claim language of claim 1 did not contain the limitation
• affirming sufficient written description based on expert testimony about how a specifi- cation’s disclosure would have been understood in view of what was known in the art
• affirming sufficient written description based on expert testimony about how a specifi- cation’s disclosure would have been understood in view of what was known in the art
• affirming the district court’s construction of a claim term after observing the specification, among other things, “describe[d] the features of the present invention as a whole” and “explained the benefits [thereof] over the prior art” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “When a patent describes the features of the ‘present invention’ as a whole, this description limits the scope of the invention.” (cleaned up)
• “An invention is not obvious simply because all of the claimed limitations were known in the prior art at the time of the invention.”

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Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

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  Federal Circuit· 2006-02-21· cited 3,273×
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• KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2007-04-30· cited 1,310×
• United States v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-21· cited 544×
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  Federal Circuit· 2010-03-22· cited 436×
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  Federal Circuit· 2007-09-26· cited 186×
• Wbip, LLC v. Kohler Co.
  Federal Circuit· 2016-07-19· cited 184×
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  Federal Circuit· 2017-12-07· cited 164×
• Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Twi Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2014-12-03· cited 146×
• Leo Pharmaceutical Products, Ltd. v. Rea
  Federal Circuit· 2013-08-12· cited 67×
• In Re Pravin L. Soni, Ceinwen Rowlands, Larry Edwards and Mark Wartenberg
  Federal Circuit· 1995-05-09· cited 62×
• In Re Michael Geisler, Rudolf Kotter-Faulhaber, Susanne Wuerz and Michael Jung
  Federal Circuit· 1997-07-07· cited 54×
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2014-06-12· cited 52×
• Ultimatepointer, L.L.C. v. Nintendo Co Ltd
  Federal Circuit· 2016-03-01· cited 51×
• Smiths Industries Medical Systems, Inc., as Successor of Intertech Resources Inc. v. Vital Signs, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 1999-07-14· cited 50×
• Knoll Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. And the John and Lois Arnold Family Limited Liability Partnership v. Teva Pharmaceuticals Usa, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2004-05-19· cited 47×
• Pozen Inc. v. Par Pharmaceutical, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2012-09-28· cited 34×
• Cardsoft (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC v. VeriFone, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2015-12-02· cited 17×

Other cases named Forest Laboratories, LLC v. Sigmapharm Laboratories, LLC

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Forest Laboratories, LLC v. Sigmapharm Laboratories, LLC
  D. Delaware· 2017-06-30· cited 1×