long-felt-need
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-1289 | Allergan, Inc., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | blocking-patent blocking-patent-doctrine commercial-success graham-v-john-deere long-felt-need objective-indicia objective-indicia-of-non-obviousness obviousness patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-obviousness prior-art | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in this case, as it did in Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxanne Laboratories, Inc., 903 F.3d 1310 (Fed. Cir. 2018), … |
| 18-823 | ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations | Whether evidence of "secondary considerations" (e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented invention) is less important, functioning at … |