Legal Opinion
Biogen, Inc. v. Amgen Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 6, 1998No. Civil Action 95-10496-RGSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF CLAIMS 1 AND 9 OF THE ’702 PATENT
STEARNS, District Judge.
This decision results from a hearing held under the auspices of Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370, 116 S.Ct. 1384, 134 L.Ed.2d 577 (1996). Markman requires a trial judge in a patent ease to construe and define the contested claims of a patent. The task committed to the judge is to explain what the protected invention is, and sometimes what it is not, ideally in language that will be accessible to a lay jury.
While several claims of several related Biogen patents are at issue,…
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