REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CAL. v. ELI LILLY & CO.

No. 96-1175.

119 F.3d 1559 (1997)

The REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

July 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. McElhinny, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Donald S. Chisum, Alan K. Palmer, Rachel Krevans, and Debra A. Shetka. Also with him on the brief were Arthur I. Neustadt, Jean-Paul Lavalleye, Marc R. Labgold, and William J. Healey, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., Arlington, VA. Of counsel was Gladys H. Monroy, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA.

Charles E. Lipsey, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were Donald R. Dunner, Howard W. Levine, and John R. Alison. Of counsel on the brief was Amy E. Hamilton, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN.

Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and BRYSON, Circuit Judges.


LOURIE, Circuit Judge.

The Regents of the University of California (UC) appeal from the judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, holding that Eli Lilly & Company (Lilly) does not infringe U.S. Patent 4,652,525 or U.S. Patent 4,431,740 in its manufacture of human insulin; that the asserted claims of the '525 patent are invalid; and that both patents are unenforceable. Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Eli Lilly and Co., 39 USPQ2d...

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