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Describing Drugs: A Response to Profs. Allison and Ouellette

Sherkow, Jacob S.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/110298

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Title
Describing Drugs: A Response to Profs. Allison and Ouellette
Author(s)
Sherkow, Jacob S.
Issue Date
2016-03-23
Keyword(s)
  • patents
  • intellectual property
  • ip
  • PTO
  • drugs
  • pharmaceuticals
  • bioscience
  • biotechnology
  • law
  • Allison
  • Ouellette
  • written description
  • 112
  • empirical
  • doctrinal
Abstract
Profs. Allison and Ouellette’s Article, How Courts Adjudicate Patent Definiteness and Disclosure, 65 Duke L.J. 609 (2015), on courts’ adjudication of certain patent disputes presents some surprising data: pharmaceutical patents litigated to judgment fare substantially worse on written-description analyses if they are not part of traditional pioneer-generic litigation. This Response engages in several hypotheses for this disparity and examines the cases that make up Allison and Ouellette’s dataset. An analysis of these cases finds that the disparity can be best explained by technological and judicial idiosyncrasies in each case, rather than larger differences among pharmaceutical patent cases. This finding contextualizes the power and limits of large-scale empirical patent scholarship, like Allison and Ouellette’s, and provides of model for how empirical and doctrinal patent scholarship can complement one another.
Publisher
Duke University Law Journal
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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