As 2023 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at this year’s top patent decisions. Patent litigation had an active year with many important cases in contention for the top spots. These five decisions changed the legal landscape. From life sciences to industrial designs to trade shows, these decisions spanned a wide variety of patent law issues and signal that Constitutional patent rights are still exploring new legal questions and breaking new ground almost 250 years after our nation’s founding.

‘Amgen v. Sanofi,’ 598 U.S. 594 (2023)

The one and only patent case from the 2022-2023 term, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Amgen decision on patent enablement was widely watched across the biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.