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Americas
Pennsylvania-based E A Fischione Instruments has taken a rival lab instrument manufacturer to court over the alleged theft of trade secrets related to specimen holders for transmission electron microscopes. 2 November 2020
Americas
French drugmaker Sanofi and US biotechnology company Regeneron have secured a victory at the European Patent Office, which has sided in their favour by ruling that a patent belonging to rival Amgen is invalid. 30 October 2020
Americas
St. Louis-based Washington University has won more than $31.6 million from a patent victory over the University of Wisconsin’s technology transfer office. 29 October 2020
Americas
A Minnesota judge has approved an agreement between 3M and a former Marine, resolving a price-gouging dispute over N95 masks. 28 October 2020
Americas
Cozen O’Connor has hired Jeffrey Gendzwill and Keith Fredlake from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton into the firm’s Washington, DC office. 28 October 2020
Biotechnology
Discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the CRISPR landscape and section 101 are top of mind for Eldora Ellison, director at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox. 28 October 2020
Americas
Germany-based Bayer will pay up to $4 billion to acquire gene therapy company Asklepios BioPharmaceutical. 27 October 2020
Americas
The final version of guidelines issued by Canada’s federal drug price regulator last week has caused uproar among the pharma industry. 26 October 2020
Big Pharma
The English High Court has lifted a stay on Amgen’s lawsuit which accused Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron of infringing a patent covering pharmaceuticals which treat elevated cholesterol levels. 23 October 2020
Big Pharma
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche will pay $350 million for the rights to develop and distribute an investigational COVID-19 antiviral outside of the US. 22 October 2020