Supreme Court to hear patent case
20 October 2008
Eileen McDermott, New York
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a patent case between pharmaceutical companies Carlsbad Technology and HIF Bio, Inc, to decide whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to review an appeal of a US district court’s decision to remand a case to a state court
The case involves a dispute over inventorship related to a compound for suppressing growth of blood vessels supplying tumours.
In September 2005, HIF and BizBiotech filed a complaint against Carlsbad Technology and several other parties in Los Angeles Superior Court. In November 2005, the action was removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
The district court...
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