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Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration has warned 21 websites over the illegal marketing of misbranded versions of opioid medications. 30 August 2018
Americas
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has expanded its IP practice by adding a patent prosecution and litigation team of lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery. 29 August 2018
Pharma
UK-based Horizon Discovery has entered into a CRISPR collaboration with an unnamed big pharma company. 29 August 2018
Americas
Purdue Pharma has settled another patent dispute involving pain drug OxyContin (oxycodone), just weeks after a suit against generics company Amneal Pharmaceuticals came to an end. 29 August 2018
Pharma
Late last week, Chugai Pharmaceutical emerged victorious after the English High Court found that the Japan-based company doesn’t owe royalties under a patent licence with UCB. 28 August 2018
Americas
Generics maker Alvogen secured a patent win at a US court last week, despite the judge finding that the company had infringed patents covering an opioid treatment. 28 August 2018
Americas
A Wisconsin jury has concluded that medical device company DePuy Synthes should pay $8.2 million for wilfully infringing an orthopaedic implant patent. 27 August 2018
Asia-Pacific
York Faulkner, an IP partner from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Tokyo. 24 August 2018
Pharma
The UK will fall outside of the European Medicines Agency in the event of a no-deal Brexit, leaving the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to take on the functions currently undertaken by the EU for medicines on the UK market. 24 August 2018
Americas
A non-profit called AIDS Healthcare Foundation has filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court in a patent dispute with Gilead. 23 August 2018