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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`Case No 513-CV-1927 LHK PSG
`DECLARATION OF MICHAEL
`MAYERSOHN PH.D IN SUPPORT OF
`DEFENDANTS CLAIM
`CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
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`Case No 513-C V-2416 LHK PSG
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`Case No 513-CV-2420 LHK PSG
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`PAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC AND
`HANDA PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
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`Plamtiffs
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`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD
`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS NORTH
`AMERICA INC TAKEDA
`PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA INC
`AND TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS
`U.S.A INC
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`Defendants
`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD.
`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS U.S.A.
`INC AND TAKEDA
`PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA INC
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`Plaintiffs
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`IMPAX LABORATORIES INC.
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`Defendant
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`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD.
`TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS U.S.A
`INC. AND TAKEDA
`PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA INC
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`Plaintiffs
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`TWI PHARMACEUTICALS INC
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`QUALIFICATIONS
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`Construction of Disputed Claim Terms of the 158 Patent
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`regardless of whether the patient is imder fasted or fed conditions
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`Michael Mayersohn Ph.D declare as follows
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`submit this declaration in support of the claim construction brief submitted by
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`defendants Impax Laboratories Inc Par Pharmaceutical
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`Inc Handa Pharmaceuticals LLC and T\Vi
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`Pharmaceuticals Inc collectively Defendants
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`submit this declaration to provide relevant background information
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`regarding the technology at issue in U.S Patent No 8173158 the 158 patent and to set forth my
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`opinions regarding the meaning of the disputed claim terms from the perspective of person of
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`QIh%JAFICATIONS
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`brief summary of my qualifications My qualifications are more
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`was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Phannacy in 1966 from Columbia
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`University College of Phannaceutical
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`Sciences and Ph.D in Pharmaceutics
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`was licensed by the State of New York to practice phannacy in 1967 and practiced
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`have been member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Phannacology and
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`Toxicolo2y the Center for Toxicology and the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center all
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`My research interests include the general area of pharmaceutical sciences with
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`specialty in pharmaceutics biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
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`drug and its dosage form and
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`to pharmaceutical scientists This course has been successfluly offered since 1994 and has em-oiled
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`lam being compensated for my work in this case at my standard rate of $800 per hour
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`The 158 patent generally relates to methods of treating heartburn acid reflux or
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`pharmaceutical composition containing small
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`organic molecules called proton pump inhibitors PPIs In particular the 158 patent relates to
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`combining the PPI with various stabilizers and coatings resulting in drug formulation that has an
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`acidic environment of the stomach bitt permits the coating to dissolve in the less acidic enviromnent
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`branded and generic formulations The first PPI that became conimercially available omeprazole was
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`form of the raceinic drug omeprazole sold imder the brand name Nexium subsequently became
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`available Prevacid generically knovn as lansoprazole is sold by Takeda and lost its patent
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`enteric-coated particles comprising the PPI dexlansoprazole 158 Pat Claim
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`range of percentages of polymers that may be used in the enteric coatings of the granules and Table
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`pharmaceutical science that
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`achninistered to the body It
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`individuals and populations of patients The pharmacokinetic and phannacodynamic events overlap
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`stylized single-dose plasma concentration-time profile resulting from oral dosing is
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`have been asked by counsel
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`understand that Takeda has asserted claims 1-8 of the 158 patent against
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`method of treating heartburn acid refiux or gastroesophageal
`the method
`patient in need of treatment thereof
`refiux disease in
`comprising the steps of
`obtaining
`pharmaceutical composition
`comprising dexlansoprazole from group of pharmaceutical
`compositions comprising proton pump inhibitors and
`administering
`patient suffering from heartburn acid refiux or gastroesophageal
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`the patient is under fasted or fed
`reflux regardless of whether
`therapeutically effective amoimt of the pharmaceutical
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`composition obtained in step
`wherein the pharmaceutical composition
`first solid particle wherein said first solid particle
`comprises
`comprises dexlansoprazole and
`first enteric coating wherein the first
`enteric coating releases the proton pump inhibitor from the solid
`pH of about 5.0 to about 5.5 and ii
`second solid
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`particle wherein said second solid particle comprises dexlansoprazole
`second enteric coating wherem the second enteric coating
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`pH of
`releases the proton pump inhibitor from the solid particle at
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`S0o to about 50 by weight of the phannaceutical composition
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`The method of claim wherein the first enteric coating has
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`pH of
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`The method of claim wherein the second enteric coating has
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`pH
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`The method of claim wherein the changes in pharmacokinetics
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`single dose of
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`effective amomt of the pharmaceutical composition comprising
`dexlansoprazole under fasting or fed conditions does not produce
`statistically significant changes in intragastric pH
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`regardless of whether
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`Defendants Construction
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`Regardless of whether the patient is dosed
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`before meal within 30 minutes before
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`patient has eaten meal whereas the same
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`is achieved whether the patient has eaten meal will eat meal or is on an empty
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`stomach In my opinion Defendants original proposed defmition was consistent with the
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`specification of the 158 patent which includes experimental results for several
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`fasted and fed
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`conditions which vary depending on whether and when the patient has consumed
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`high-fat breakfast
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`158 Pat at 2336-2717 Specifically the 158 patent
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`includes results for testing conducted on
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`patients dosed under fasting conditions dosed 30 mm after the start of high-fat breakfast dosed
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`mm before
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`high-fat breakfast and dosed 30 mm before
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`high-fat breakfast
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`Defendants original proposed defmition covered these various fasted and fed conditions and further
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`these conditions should
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`result in the same therapeutic effect
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`also nnderstand that in an effort to construe claim terms appearing in different claims
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`in the same way Defendants have generally agreed to adopt Takedas proposed construction for
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`fasting or fed conditions in connection with its construction of that term in claim of the 158
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`patent While Takeda has proposed to define fasted or fed conditions in claim to mean without
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`regard to food Takeda has defined
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`nearly identical
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`term fasting or fed conditions
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`entirely
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`differently in claim
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`Compare Takeda Br at 14 wit/i Takeda Br at 23 Specifically in connection
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`with claim Takeda defmes fasting conditions to mean dosing after an overnight fast and fed
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`conditions to mean dosing within 30 minutes before or after meal id at 23 with the latter
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`covering two of the three fed conditions disclosed in the 158 specification
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`KId at 24 Bitt the only
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`difference between the fast/fed terms appearing in claims
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`and
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`fasting in claim There is no reason why they shonld be different
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`the 158 patent
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`treats these
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`terms as identical and persons of ordinary skill
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`in the art would have understood them to be identical
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`as well 158 Pat at Fig
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`Fig 2.41-4 2463-2565 Accordingly the construction for fasted or
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`fed conditions in claim should be the same as that for fasting or fed conditions in claim
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`construction for
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`fasting or fed conditions to recite each of the three fed conditions disclosed in the 158
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`specification rather than lumping them together as in Takeda
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`proposal Separately reciting each
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`condition is appropriate in the context of claim
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`because the plain meaning of claim requires
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`therapeutically effective amount of the PPI to be administered irrespective of whether the patient has
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`been dosed imder any of the fasted or fed conditions Exhibit
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`defmes regardless as without
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`tegaid to inespective of In other words the regardless term in claim requires
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`therapeutic
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`effect
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`to be achieved no matter which state the patient
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`is in 30 minutes after eating minutes before
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`eating or 30 minutes before eating 158 Pat at Table
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`Consistent with this requirement Defendants proposed defmition separately identifies
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`the fasted state the fed state after the start of meal and the two fed states before the stall of meal
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`to indicate that the therapeutic
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`results must be achieved no matter which of these states the patient is in
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`when dosed with the drug This construction is consistent with the specification which defmes
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`fasted to mean after an ovemiaht
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`fast 158 Pat at 23 63-244 and further defmes three fed
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`conditions
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`patient is dosed within 30 minutes after meal within minutes before meal or within
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`30 minutes before meal 158 Pat at Table
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`This construction is also consistent with the patents
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`statements distinguishing the invention from previously-available PPIs which according to the patent
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`should be taken shortly before eating meal 158 Pat at 24-15 966-1034
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`enteric coating releases the proton pump inhibitor from the solid particle
`pH of about 5.0 to about 5.5 or about 6.2 to about 6.8 claim
`at
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`Defendants Construction
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`Enteric coating releases all of the proton
`pH
`pump inhibitor from the solid particle at
`pH of no more than
`of
`less than 4.95 to
`5.55f less than 6.15 to
`pH of no more
`than 6.85
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`Takedas Construction
`The target pH for dissolution of the enteric
`coating is approximately 5.0 to
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`approximately 5.5 or approximately 6.2 to
`approximately 6.8
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`the enteric coating must release
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`all of the proton inhibitor and
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`the pH at which the release takes place must be about 5.0 to about
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`5.5 or about 6.2 to about 6.8 where about is defmed to mean 0.05 pH units Once this defmition
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`of about is applied to the pH levels recited in the claims the pH ranges become no less than 4.95 to
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`no more than 5.55 and no less than 6.15 to no more than 6.85 In my opinion Defendants
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`proposed construction is consistent with the intrinsic and extrinsic evidence
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`enteric coating releases the proton pump inhibitor at3
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`pH of
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`Defendants proposed construction requires that
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`the enteric coating surrounding the PPI
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`actually releases its PPI at or above
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`particular pH This construction is consistent with the intrinsic
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`evidence in particular the claim language which requires release of the PPI enteric coating releases
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`the proton pump inhibitor
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`at
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`pH of
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`158 Pat at Claim
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`Defendants construction is also
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`consistent with the specification wherein the first enteric coating releases the active agent
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`from the
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`solid particle at
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`pH of about 5.0 to about 5.5 and wherein the second enteric coating releases the
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`active agent
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`from the solid particle at
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`pH of about 6.2 to about 6.8
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`second enteric coating
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`surrounds the core and releases the active agent from the solid particle at
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`pH of about 6.2 to about
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`proposed construction reads the release requirement entirely out
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`of the claims while at the same time reading into the claims
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`new requirement target pH for
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`dissolution Instead of requiring as the claim recites that the PPI be released from the enteric
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`coating at or above
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`particular pH Takedas construction only looks to see what the enteric coat
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`is
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`made of
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`If the enteric coat is made of material
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`that
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`is designed to dissolve at
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`pH that corresponds
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`to the claimed threshold pHs then under Takeda
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`construction the formulation falls within the scope
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`of the claims But enteric coats do not necessarily dissolve at the exact
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`target pH at which they are
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`supposed to dissolve Rather as discussed in detail
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`in Dr Sinkos declaration the release of PPIs is
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`affected by many more factors in addition to the pH such as thickness and uniformity of the enteric
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`coating the nature of other excipients in the enteric coat and the testing conditions Thus Takeda
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`proposed construction entirely eliminates the release requirement
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`from the claims
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`agree that the entirety of release need not occur at
`particular pH Defendants proposed
`particular pH which as Takedas expert Dr
`release at or above
`construction was intended to cover
`Sinko also agrees is the correct phraseology Sinko Decl 11 50 108 119 Thus the phrase at
`pH of
`pH of as used in Defendants proposed construction should be read to mean at or above
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`Defendants construction also requires the release of all of the PPJ contained within the
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`enteric coating after the claimed threshold pH is reached as modified by the word about Thus
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`imder Defendants proposed construction the PPI must not begin to release below the recited threshold
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`pHs Accordingly for the first pH term the release must begin at
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`pH of no less than about SM and
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`continue until completed and for the second pH term the release must begin at
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`pH of no less than
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`the bottom-end pH values recited in the claims become
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`meaningless As discussed above the release of PPIs is affected by many more factors in addition to
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`the pH such as thickness and uniformity of the enteric coating the nature of other excipients in the
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`enteric coat and the testing conditions Thus unless the claimed pH-dependent
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`release is limited to
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`require that the release begin only after the claimed threshold pH is reached release at anvpH would
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`fall within the scope of the claims if
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`the other conditions are carefully manipulated For example the
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`test conditions may be set in such way that release occurs substantially below the claimed threshold
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`pH rendering the pH limitation meaningless
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`Moreover whether release below the target pH is covered by the claims is not
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`relevant here as the pH values in the claims are not the target pHs as discussed above The claims
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`merely require that the drug begin releasing once
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`particular pH value is reached Because the claims
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`are not directed to the target pH it
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`is not necessary to futher require that the claims cover
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`release
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`below the target pH To the extent any release below the recited pH ranges is covered by the claims it
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`is that which is included in the expansion of the rang

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