· 5/7/2012
OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. v. Sandoz, Inc.
Citations
- 678 F.3d 1280
- 102 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1729
- 2012 WL 1571414
- 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 9248
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- declining to consider evidence of secondary considerations of non-obvio.usness . after the .court, concluded that the prior art would not have provided one of, ordinary skill with a reason or motivation to make the claimed invention
- “The inventor's own path itself never leads to a conclusion of obviousness; that is hindsight. What matters is the path that the person of ordinary skill in the art would have followed, as evidenced by the pertinent prior art.”
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Judges: Lourie, Moore, Reyna
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