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Big Pharma
New partner brings pharma and chemistry focus, and boosts the European firm’s Unified Patent Court team. 1 September 2022
Americas
Suit claims a contractor used AltaThera secrets to launch a rival heart arrhythmia drug | Chicago-based company wants the court to add its founder as co-inventor on patent. 1 September 2022
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O’Melveny has hired life sciences patent litigator Gregory Morris for its New York office as a partner in its IP and technology practice group. 30 August 2022
Generics
Pharma company facing lawsuit from two universities | Dispute centres on therapeutically effective co-crystals patent. 30 August 2022
Americas
Moderna has taken Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech to court, alleging that the pair copied Moderna’s technology when developing their COVID-19 vaccine. 30 August 2022
Big Pharma
Teva’s petition relies on a “blatantly misleading” question, argues GSK | Case presents “no new issues” that haven’t already been decided. 25 August 2022
Big Pharma
Safe harbour provisions can be relied on but their boundaries are still being defined, explain Jeanna Wacker and Tasha Francis Gerasimow of Kirkland & Ellis. 25 August 2022
Americas
Illinois court rules company’s syringe to drug vial system doesn’t infringe | System’s components can be used for other purposes. 25 August 2022
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Firm appoints new partner with ‘extensive’ in-house and experience | Move follows key office move to Colorado where life sciences sector ‘flourishing’. 23 August 2022
Biotechnology
Protecting new and inventive innovations in this increasingly crowded area is essential, explains Ine Vanderleyden of Mewburn Ellis. 23 August 2022