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25 March 2015Biotech

Case review: Biogen v Medeva, 20 years on

It may be hard to imagine Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington sitting down to reminisce after the Battle of Waterloo, and it’s perhaps just as hard to imagine warring legal parties doing so after a long and hard-fought battle. But that is what happened in February when the parties involved in the landmark patent case Biogen v Medeva met to reminisce about their involvement in the case before an invited audience.

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