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Americas
Two citizens of Ukraine have admitted to smuggling and distributing counterfeit cancer and hepatitis drugs into the US at the Southern District Court of Texas on July 17, according to the US Department of Justice. 20 July 2020
Biotechnology
Biotechnology company Qiagen has failed in its bid to stop diagnostics company HandyLab from retaining a patent for a diagnostic system, according to a decision issued by the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday, July 14. 20 July 2020
Americas
AbbVie has used a “drip feed” of patents to secure more than nine years of extra exclusivity on blood cancer drug Imbruvica, a new report has revealed. 20 July 2020
Big Pharma
A US federal court has thrown out an appeal from Ono Pharmaceutical and a Nobel Prize-winning immunologist, in a dispute over who made groundbreaking discoveries in cancer therapy. 16 July 2020
Plant Varieties
Plant industry associations say “reason and fairness” will be needed from both growers and breeders as royalty payments mount. 16 July 2020
Biotechnology
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) will take another look at whether German orthopedics company Zimmer Biomet violated the IP rights of medical technology company Heraeus, it announced yesterday, Monday 13 July. 14 July 2020
Biotechnology
China’s Junshi Biosciences has licensed technology to produce an antibody against COVID-19 from Swiss biotechnology firm Lonza. 14 July 2020
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UK Intellectual Property Office Perspective: Views on the Current Patenting Landscape - and COVID-19
Join the live broadcast to take part in the discussion with the UKIPO. Topics include: 14 July 2020
Generics
The EU’s top court has ruled out extra exclusivity rewards to drug companies for products with a second medical use. 10 July 2020
Biotechnology
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to the biomedical community as it strives to find the best solutions to fight COVID-19. 10 July 2020