Legal Opinion
Apotex Inc. v. Wyeth LLC
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 16, 2016No. 2015-1871Unpublished
1Opinion of the Court
Lourie, Circuit Judge.
Apotex Inc. appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) final written decision in an inter partes review concluding that claims 1-28 of U.S. Patent 7,879,-828 (“the ’828 patent”) are not unpatentable as obvious. See Apotex Inc. v. Wyeth LLC, No. 2014-00115, 2015 WL 1848261, at *14 (P.T.A.B. Apr. 20, 2015). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Background
Wyeth LLC owns the ’828 patent, directed to a composition comprising tigecy-cline, a suitable carbohydrate, and an acid or buffer. ’828 patent col. 111. 10-11. Tige-cycline…
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