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Big Pharma
Law firm Cooley has hired Colm Murphy as a partner in the firm’s life sciences patent counselling and prosecution practice in London. 4 May 2016
Asia-Pacific
Australia’s patent system is “poorly targeted” and protection for pharmaceutical inventions is “excessive”, according to a government advisory committee. 4 May 2016
Americas
A judge assessing a patent dispute between Merck and Gilead centring on hepatitis C treatments has allowed Gilead to submit new evidence of jurors allegedly being misled. 3 May 2016
Africa
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization has welcomed the US Trade Representative’s “Special 301 Report”, which it said “aims to advance global IP rights in biotechnology in a number of constructive ways”. 29 April 2016
Africa
Advocate group Médecins Sans Frontières delivered a suitcase full of syringes to the London headquarters of pharmaceutical company GSK in protest at the price of a pneumonia vaccine. 28 April 2016
Americas
Patent litigation related to Abbreviated New Drug Applications has increased by nearly 70% in the last two years, a report has claimed. 27 April 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Takeda has recovered a domain name that is confusingly similar to its trademark. 26 April 2016
Americas
A group of biotechnology industry associations has stepped into the Ariosa v Sequenom dispute, which may be reviewed by the US Supreme Court. 25 April 2016
Big Pharma
Genetics analysis company Illumina has sued Switzerland-based Genoma. 22 April 2016
Americas
Law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired Keeto Sabharwal as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice in Washington, DC. 21 April 2016