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GSK Files Petition for Rehearing in Tafas v. Doll

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Plaintiff-appellee Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas was not alone yesterday in filing a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the March 20 decision in Tafas v. Doll (see Patent Docs report). Also seeking a rehearing of the Federal Circuit's decision in Tafas were plaintiffs-appellees SmithKline Beecham Corp., SmithKline Beecham PLC, and Glaxo Group Ltd. ("GSK"), which filed a petition for rehearing en banc on Wednesday as well. In that petition, GSK posed the following questions of exceptional importance: I. Whether the Panel majority erred in rejecting the test for determining whether a Patent and...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).