Legal Opinion
Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd. v. Abbott Gmbh & Co. Kg
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 15, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2010-1836PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge
What does it take to disclose a protein sufficiently so that it can be patented? After 20 years of litigation, the parties are still arguing about it. Abbott GMBH & Co. KG and Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. claim competing U.S. patent applications, each based on an earlier-filed foreign patent application. Abbott's application to patent the TBP-II protein was filed in Germany on May 9, 1989. Yeda filed its application to patent the TBP-II protein nine days later, on May 18, 1989 in Israel. From that few days’ difference in time…
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