Legal Opinion
Genentech, Inc. v. Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 27, 1994No. Nos. 92-1503, 92-1505PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLAGER, Circuit Judge.
The question in this patent infringement action is whether a protein, formed through recombinant DNA technology, infringes, under the doctrine of equivalents, any of three patents: a patent directed to a natural protein extracted from certain human cancer cells; a patent directed to the materials needed to produce the natural protein through recombinant DNA technology, i.e., the DNA sequence encoding the protein, the expression vector containing the sequence, and the microorganism or cell culture capable of expressing the protein; or a patent directed to the process of…
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