Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending January 7, 2022

A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc., et al., No. 2021-1070 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Jan. 3, 2022). Opinion by O'Malley, joined by Linn. Dissenting opinion by Moore.

Novartis markets a 0.5 mg daily dose of fingolimod hydrochloride under the brand name Gilenya, a medication used to treat relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Novartis owns a patent that claims methods for treating RRMS with fingolimod or a fingolimod salt, such as fingolimod hydrochloride, at a daily dosage of 0.5 mg without an immediately preceding loading dose. The patent claims priority to a 2006 British patent application.