US Supreme Court clarifies Federal Circuit jurisdiction
07 May 2009
Eileen McDermott, New York
The US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Tuesday that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to review a case remanded by a district court to state court
In September 2005, HIF and BizBiotech filed a complaint against Carlsbad Technology and several other parties in Los Angeles Superior Court in a dispute over inventorship related to a compound for suppressing growth of blood vessels supplying tumours.
In November 2005, the action was removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
The district court ultimately declined supplemental jurisdiction over the rights of inventorship and ownership of inventions...
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