Pfizer emergency Supreme Court request
Executive Summary
Pfizer asks the Supreme Court May 29 to vacate the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' ruling that its Norvasc patent is invalid until the court takes action on its concurrently filed petition for certiorari. The Federal Circuit denied Pfizer's request for an en banc review of its decision (1"The Pink Sheet" May 28, 2007, p. 23). Pfizer argues that the Federal Circuit "used a flawed analytical framework" in applying the Supreme Court's recent ruling in KSR v. Teleflex as to what constitutes an obvious patent...
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