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Federal Circuit· 1/17/2008

Innogenetics, N v. v. Abbott Laboratories

Citations

  • 512 F.3d 1363
  • 85 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1641
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 976
  • 2008 WL 151080

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that courts must “be careful not to allow hindsight reconstruction of references to reach the claimed invention without any explanation as to how or why the references would be combined to produce the claimed invention.”
  • explaining that “knowledge of a problem and motivation to solve it are entirely different from motivation to combine particular references”
  • finding no error when an expert’s failure to use the district court’s exact words regarding claim construction did not change the substance of his testimony or render it inapplicable
  • requiring a heightened burden of explanation in an expert report regarding motivation to combine references for a technology involving the detection and classification of hepatitis C genotypes in a biological sample
  • reversing entry of JMOL because district court erred in excluding expert’s testimony whose “failure to use the district court’s exact words does not change the substance of his testimony or render it inapplicable”
  • reversing entry of JMOL because district court erred in excluding expert’s testimony whose “failure to use the district court’s exact words does not change the substance of his testimony or render it inapplicable”

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Judges: Bryson, Circuit Judge, Clevenger, Senior Circuit Judge, and Moore, Circuit Judge

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