Eli Lilly & Co. v. Apotex, Inc.

Using a trademark or trade name in a claim to identify or describe a particular material or product renders the claim indefinite; claims reciting the trade name were properly rejected, and the rejection was mooted by amending to the generic name for the same substance.

Written by

A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

Human review

Not reviewed by a person

Read the opinion before relying on this in a filing. How these are made · Report an error