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Americas
A US court has overturned an earlier ruling in which Merck was awarded $200 million in damages for patent infringement after finding that the pharmaceutical company had engaged in misconduct. 9 June 2016
Americas
A day after Hillary Clinton won in California and five months ahead of the US general election, the 2016 BIO International Convention hosted a Keynote session to hear the thoughts of political experts. 9 June 2016
Americas
This year’s BIO International Convention took a turn for the groovy on Wednesday night, with a 'Summer of Love' party at San Francisco City Hall. 9 June 2016
Asia
India needs to focus more resources on evaluating applications for biologic drugs, while the biosimilar system needs to be tweaked, says Archana Shanker of Anand and Anand. 9 June 2016
Americas
The system governing access to genetic resources in Brazil has been strengthened by a recent legal update, explain Andrea Granthon and Tatiana Schuenck of Luiz Leonardos & Advogados. 9 June 2016
Asia-Pacific
Sequenom has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sonic Healthcare, Australian Clinical Labs and Ariosa Diagnostics at the Australian Federal Court. 8 June 2016
Biotechnology
Lawyers are navigating an “uncertain terrain” when presiding over cases involving biosimilars, a speaker at the 2016 BIO International Convention has said. 8 June 2016
Americas
Gender diversity was the topic of our next video interview where we discovered that the biotechnology industry is an "old boys network". 8 June 2016
Americas
Casey Thampoe, managing IP counsel for biologics and vaccines at Merck & Co, speaks to LSIPR. 8 June 2016
Asia
An Indian company is working on two approaches to creating a vaccine for the Zika virus, while several trademark applications have been filed for the term. Lucy Rana
of SS Rana reports. 8 June 2016