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This brief was submitted on behalf of the Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association and proposes a principled claim constructions analysis that is applicable to all patent claims, regardless of where, when, or how the claims were drafted.

In a recent Federal Court decision out of the Eastern District of New York, Judge Gershon has held that our client, Eon Labs, Inc., does not infringe U.S. Patent 5,633,015 to Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). The case related to a drug known as itraconazole and […]

Presented at the Joint Patent Practice Seminar at the New York Hilton in NYC, Rich Basile addresses the history and circumstances that led to the case and the historic en banc ruling. The presentation also addresses the case’s potential impact on future cases involving claims of willful infringement.

This article published in the ABA Journal discusses how an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will decide whether to give defendants in patent infringement suits the same level of attorney-client privilege enjoyed by other litigants. Richard Basile provides some insights and opinions.

U.S. Patent No. 6,907,404, directed to an automated investment chart pattern search system, was issued after a successful appeal by SSJR’s patent prosecution team, who were asked to convince the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences to reverse old rejections issued by the patent examiner.