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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed a win to BASF yesterday, after the chemical company appealed against a finding that its patent was invalid. 21 November 2017
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Merck has continued to strengthen its expertise in immunotherapy with the signing of a research collaboration and licence agreement with Cue Biopharma. 20 November 2017
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A group of 14 educational institutions in Texas and biotech company TissueGen have sued a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson for infringing two patents covering biodegradable fibres. 17 November 2017
Big Pharma
The English High Court has refused to grant Eli Lilly an injunction which would have stopped Teva, Actavis and Mylan marketing a generic version of its drug Cialis (tadalafil). 17 November 2017
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NPS Pharmaceuticals suffered a knock-back yesterday, when the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision which found that claims covering a patent owned by NPS were unpatentable. 16 November 2017
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Bayer has entered into a global collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Loxo Oncology, in a deal that could be worth more than $1 billion. 16 November 2017
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Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has dropped a lawsuit against Samsung's biopharmaceutical arm Samsung Bioepis. 15 November 2017
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Excision BioTherapeutics has become the first company to secure exclusive licences from the University of California, Berkeley for “newly discovered” CRISPR gene editors. 15 November 2017
Big Pharma
Swiss-type second medical use patents can be infringed if a generic producer could have reasonably foreseen that its product would be used intentionally for the claimed use, according to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. 14 November 2017
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed its findings in Life Technologies v Promega, nine months after the US Supreme Court limited overseas patent infringement. 14 November 2017