Abbott v. Sandoz
| Abbott v. Sandoz | |
|---|---|
| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
| Full case name | Abbott Laboratories v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. |
| Decided | May 18, 2009 |
| Citations | 566 F.3d 1282; 90 U.S.P.Q.2d 1769 |
| Case history | |
| Prior history | Lupin Ltd. v. Abbott Laboratories, 484 F. Supp. 2d 448 (E.D. Va. 2007); partial summary judgment granted, 491 F. Supp. 2d 563 (E.D. Va. 2007); Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz, Inc., 486 F. Supp. 2d 767 (N.D. Ill. 2007) |
| Subsequent history | Cert. denied, 558 U.S. 1136 (2010) |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Randall Ray Rader, S. Jay Plager, William Curtis Bryson, Paul Redmond Michel, Arthur J. Gajarsa, Richard Linn, Timothy B. Dyk, Sharon Prost, Kimberly Ann Moore, Pauline Newman, Haldane Robert Mayer, Alan David Lourie (en banc) |
| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Rader, joined by Michel, Bryson, Gajarsa, Linn, Dyk, Prost, Moore |
| Concur/dissent | Newman, joined by Mayer, Lourie |
| Dissent | Lourie |
Abbott v. Sandoz, 566 F.3d 1282 (Fed. Cir. 2009), was a US patent law case argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that established a bright-line ruling regarding claims of patent infringement relating to disagreements over so-called “product-by-process” claims. The case was decided on May 18, 2009.