Partner Liane Peterson will present “Assessing Secondary Considerations in Light of Blocking Patents Post-Acorda” at the American Conference Institute’s (ACI) Paragraph IV Disputes Conference on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 in New York, New York.
Topics Peterson and the other panelists will cover include:
Reviewing the expanding doctrine of blocking patents relative to secondary considerations
Exploring the difficulty of presenting evidence of “negative acts”
Considering which party bears the burden of proving the effect of the putative blocking patent
Determining how much proof is required to overcome the “solid premise of diminished incentive” when a blocking patent is invoked?
Analyzing how the Acorda decision effects the obviousness analysis
