Supreme Court Renders Decision in Amgen v. Sanofi: Three Takeaways

The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Amgen v. Sanofi today. In Justice Gorsuch’s unanimous opinion, the Court held that the scope of the claims at issue were much broader than the 26 expressly disclosed antibodies. The Court sees these claims as being like (“bear more than a passing resemblance”) the claims held to be invalid in O’Reilly v. Morse, 15 How. 62, The Incandescent Lamp Patent, 159 U. S. 465, and Holland Furniture Co. v. Perkins Glue Co., 277 U. S. 245….
By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP