Pharmacia v. Par Pharmaceutical

Inequitable conduct that invalidates one patent will not invalidate the other patent when the patents are merely tied by a terminal disclaimer.

• MP3: Pharmacia v. Par Pharmaceutical (Fed. Cir. 2005) (citations omitted)
• PDF: Pharmacia v. Par Pharmaceutical (Fed. Cir. 2005) (full text)
• Patent Prospector: Trying To Tie With a Terminal Disclaimer
• Patently-O: Terminal Disclaimer Does Not Bind Two Patents For Purposes of Inequitable Conduct Unenforceability
• IP-Updates: Terminal Disclaimer Did Not Bind Patents for Unenforceability