August 11, 2023
The Federal Circuit decided on Friday not to touch a patent board ruling that gutted a few claims in a patent covering a way of using strips to quickly test for drugs in urine that had been asserted in a suit against an Abbott subsidiary that makes the popular drug-screening test product iCup A.D.
February 12, 2019
A California federal judge on Monday rejected a bid for a new trial in a case in which a jury found that Alere Inc. did not infringe the asserted claims of a patent covering a drug-testing system involving urine samples, finding that its owner recycled old arguments in vying for a do-over.
December 03, 2018
A California federal jury on Friday cleared Alere Inc. of allegations that its popular drug-screening test product, the iCup A.D., infringed Rembrandt Diagnostics LP's patent, which describes using strips to quickly test for drugs in urine.