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U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property

Jan. 24, 2015

More deference, more evidence

Despite the attention paid to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Teva v. Sandoz, there's an argument that it will barely make a ripple in the sea of patent law. By Alexandra Moss

Alex Moss

Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Email: alex@eff.org

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The U.S. Supreme Court's Markman decision reshaped patent litigation by crystallizing claim construction as a legal question separate from the factual question of infringement. Before and after Markman, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed claim constructions de novo. Tuesday, in Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 2015 DJDAR 741, the Supreme Court held that claim construction may involve subsidiary factual findings and that those find...

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