Nonrepudiating Patent Licensee's Right To Seek Declaratory Judgment of Invalidity or Noninfringement of the Licensed Patent : Medlmmune v. Genentech.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actions and defenses.

Patents.

Kings and rulers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Summarizes and analyzes Supreme Court opinion in Medlmmune v. Genentech, which overturned previous rulings and held that a patent licensee is not required to terminate its license agreement before seeking a declaratory judgment that the subject patent is invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed, in situations where the licensor-patentee has threatened to sue for patent infringement if the licensee did not pay demanded royalties. Summarizes previous court decisions in this case, and analyzes potential ramifications of Supreme Court decision on patent law.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Nonrepudiating Patent Licensee's Right To Seek Declaratory Judgment of Invalidity or Noninfringement of the Licensed Patent

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