Experience
Priority of invention resolved by the PTO
Stryker Corporation
Genetics Institute
The PTO initiated an interference between a patent application of Finnegan client Genetics Institute and a patent of Stryker Corporation. The PTO awarded judgment to Genetics Institute, thus resolving priority of invention to the disputed subject matter. The interference related to bone morphogenic proteins, which affect bone growth.
Stryker Corporation v. Genetics Institute, Int. No. 105508, PTAB, Judges McKelvey, Nagumo, Schafer