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BIO Submits Amicus Brief in Amgen v. Hoffman-LaRoche

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) submitted an amicus brief today to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the Amgen v. Hoffman-LaRoche case. This case involves Roche's Mircera® drug product, a form of recombinant EPO that has been covalently linked to polyethylene glycol. Last October, a jury found that Mircera® infringed several Amgen patents. That verdict found that Roche's Mircera® infringed claims 3, 7, and 8 of Amgen's U.S. Patent No. 5,547,933 (claim 12 was found not to be literally infringed but infringed under the Doctrine of Equivalents); claims 1 and 2 of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).