{"id":2479,"date":"2019-05-13T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2019-05-27T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:52:38","slug":"lack-of-reasonable-expectation-of-success-meant-claims-werent-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Reasonable Expectation of Success Meant Claims Weren&#8217;t Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/18-1434.Opinion.5-13-2019.pdf\">Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Int&#8217;l Ltd.<\/a>, [2018-1434] (May 13, 2019), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s determination that claims 1\u20133 of U.S. Patent No. 8,410,131 for treating treat advanced renal cell carcinoma would not have been obvious in view of the prior art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Circuit held that the district court erred in finding no  motivation to combine the prior art references, but found no clear error in the district court\u2019s finding that a person of ordinary skill would not have reasonably expected success, and thus agreed with the district court\u2019s ultimate determination that the challenged claims would not have been obvious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to motivation to combine, the Federal Circuit noted that its case law does not require that a particular combination must be the preferred, or the most desirable, combination described in the prior art in order to provide motivation for the current invention.  Thus it was improper to have required defendants to prove that a person of ordinary skill would have selected the claimed compound over the other prior art treatment methods in the reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However on the issue of reasonable expectation of success, the Federal Circuit agreed with the district court.  In particular the district court relied upon on the prior art and expert testimony to support subsidiary findings that (1) the phase I data for a related compound had diminished weight, (2) the claimed compound had different pharmacological properties than the prior art compound, and (3) the molecular biology of advanced RCC was not completely understood.  The Federal Circuit affirm the district court&#8217;s conclusion that claims 1\u20133 of the \u2019131 patent would not have been obvious in view of the asserted prior art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Int&#8217;l Ltd., [2018-1434] (May 13, 2019), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s determination that claims 1\u20133 of U.S. Patent No. 8,410,131 for treating treat advanced renal cell carcinoma would not have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obviousness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}