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The European Commission, European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration have said they will work on streamlining the scientific requirements for approving generic drugs. 25 June 2018
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has confirmed that a request to obtain discovery for use in a foreign proceeding, in this case at the European Patent Office, will be denied unless the relevance of that discovery can be shown. 22 June 2018
Big Pharma
The Court of Justice of the European Union today handed down its decision involving the parallel imports of medicines from new EU member states into existing ones. 22 June 2018
Americas
Biomedical research charity The Wellcome Trust has granted clinical-stage company Karuna Pharmaceuticals $8 million to further advance the clinical development of a schizophrenia treatment. 21 June 2018
Americas
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted ERS Genomics its first US patent covering the use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology for gene editing. 20 June 2018
Americas
Switzerland-based Roche has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to acquire the remainder of Foundation Medicine, a molecular and genomic analysis company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 20 June 2018
Asia
Humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières has challenged a patent owned by Gilead in China. 20 June 2018
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to use new budget funding to modernise generic drug review and promote more widespread use of generics. 19 June 2018
Biotechnology
Germany-based drug discovery company Evotec has signed a deal to acquire most of Sanofi’s infectious disease unit. 19 June 2018
Americas
Addiction treatment drug producer Indivior has obtained a temporary restraining order against Indian generic maker Dr Reddy’s, blocking the company from launching a generic version of Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) Film. 18 June 2018