Legal Opinion
Institut Pasteur & Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie v. Focarino
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 30, 2013No. 2012-1485, 2012-1486, 2012-1487PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
The Instituí Pasteur owns U.S. Patent Nos. 7,309,605, 6,610,545, and 6,833,252, which claim methods and tools for the site-directed insertion of genes into eukaryotic chromosomes. Precision BioSciences requested inter partes reexamination of each of the patents, and the Patent and Trademark Office examiner rejected a number of Pasteur’s claims for obviousness, under 35 U.S.C. § 103. On appeal, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (now the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) affirmed the rejections, concluding that the claimed inventions were obvious extensions of…
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