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Vanderbilt Univ. v. ICOS Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2010)

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, in Vanderbilt Univ v. ICOS Corp., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision of the District Court for the District of Delaware finding that Plaintiff-Appellant Vanderbilt University had failed to prove that Vanderbilt scientists Drs. Jackie Corbin, Sharron Francis, and Sekhar Konjeti were joint inventors of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,859,006 and 6,140,329. The '006 and '329 patents are directed to compounds and methods for treating erectile dysfunction, including the compound tadalafil, a PDE5 inhibitor and the active ingredient in the drug Cialis®. Drs. Corbin and Francis were among the first to discover PDE5, which is...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).