Posts Tagged: "AIDS Healthcare Found v. Gilead"

AIDS Healthcare Found., Inc. v. Gilead Scis., Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of patent challenges filed by drug consumers. The Court noted that a declaratory action requires “a substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interests, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment.” The Court also dismissed AHF’s argument that it is inducing infringement and dismissed AHF’s public policy arguments for invalidating invalid patents… A consumer’s interest in purchasing cheaper goods is insufficient to meet the adverse legal interest required for a declaratory action. And a consumer’s request that another party infringes a patent cannot, by itself, induce infringement. To induce infringement, there must be direct infringement by a third party.