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MedPointe Healthcare, Inc. v. Kozachuk (Fed. Cir. 2010)

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

By Donald Zuhn -- On April 6, the Federal Circuit, in MedPointe Healthcare, Inc. v. Kozachuk, affirmed a decision of the District Court for the District of New Jersey enforcing a settlement agreement regarding the transfer of ownership of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,728,728, 5,942,540, and 6,515,019, which are directed to clinical uses of the drug Felbamate to treat neurological indications. The three patents issued from applications that were filed by Defendant-Appellant Dr. Walter Kozachuk eighteen months after he left the employ of Carter-Wallace, Inc., the predecessor of Plaintiff-Appellee MedPointe Healthcare, Inc. During his employment at Carter-Wallace, Dr. Kozachuk supervised clinical...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).