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Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

IP at the Supreme Court Series: Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi

March 27 | 5:00 - 6:00pm |  Online via Zoom
Link to Event Recording

Moderated by Professor Charles Duan

American University Washington College of Law regularly invites counsel of record and counsel for selected amici to offer post-argument reflections in intellectual property (and related) cases heard by the Supreme Court. These events are held on the afternoon of oral argument before the Court. 

ISSUE

Issues: Whether enablement is governed by the statutory requirement that the specification teach those skilled in the art to “make and use” the claimed invention, or whether it must instead enable those skilled in the art “to reach the full scope of claimed embodiments” without undue experimentation—i.e., to cumulatively identify and make all or nearly all embodiments of the invention without substantial “time and effort.”

PANELISTS

Emily Johnson
Amgen, Inc.
Counsel for Petitioner

Justin Hasford
Finnegan
Amicus Brief for Chemistry & Law division of the American Chemical Society in support of Petitioners.

Michael Penn
Instil Bio, Inc.
Amicus Brief of Instil Bio in Support of Petitioners

Melanie L. Bostwick
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Amicus Brief in support of Respondent

Prof. Joshua Sarnoff
DePaul University College of Law
Amicus Brief of Law Professors for Joshua D. Sarnoff et. al, in support of Respondents

Nina Srejovic
Georgetown Law
Amicus Brief for Public Interest Patent Law Institute in Support of Respondents

ALL BRIEFS AVAILABLE ON SCOTUSblog:  Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi

Link to Oral Argument Transcript

Link to Oral Argument Audio Recording

UPDATE:

Decision

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