Divided Panel Affirms Construction In Dispute Over Molecule Patent

Mealey's (September 4, 2019, 1:07 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 29 holding, a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that a California federal judge did not err in construing various terms in a patent that describes and claims bifunctional molecules, as well as libraries of such molecules (The Scripps Research Institute v. Illumina Inc., No. 18-2089, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26202)....