AMGEN INC. v. HOECHST MARION ROUSSEL, INC.

No. 05-1157.

457 F.3d 1293 (2006)

AMGEN INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HOECHST MARION ROUSSEL, INC. (now known as Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.) and Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

August 3, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd R. Day, Jr., Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP, of Cupertino, California, argued for plaintiff-appellee. With him on the brief were Edward M. O'Toole, Howrey LLP, of Chicago, Illinois; Michael F. Borun, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, of Chicago, Illinois; and Stuart L. Watt, Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, California. Of counsel were Renee M. DuBord Brown, Robert M. Galvin, Jonathan Loeb, David M. Madrid, Linda A. Sasaki-Baxley, Krista M. Carter, Courtney Towle, and Patricia L. Peden, Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP, of Cupertino, California; Kevin M. Flowers, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, of Chicago Illinois; Robert R. Cook, Monique L. Cordray, Steven M. Odre, and Wendy A. Whiteford, Amgen Inc., of Thousand Oaks, California; and Michael R. Gottfried and D. Dennis Allegretti, Duane Morris, LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts.

Carter G. Phillips, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for defendants-appellants. With him on the brief was Joseph R. Guerra.

Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, CLEVENGER, Senior Circuit Judge, and SCHALL, Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge SCHALL.

Dissenting-in-part opinion filed by Chief Judge MICHEL.

SCHALL, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent case. Amgen, Inc. ("Amgen") is the owner of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,547,933 ("the '933 patent"), 5,618,698 ("the '698 patent"), 5,621,080 ("the '080 patent"), 5,756,349 ("the '349 patent"), and 5,955,422 ("the '422 patent"). The patents are directed to recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA") technology relating...

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