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Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration and US Customs and Border Protection have strengthened their collaboration in a bid to halt the import of counterfeit drugs and protect public health. 5 April 2019
Americas
AbbVie is now facing six antitrust class-action lawsuits which claim that the company illegally stopped competition for its arthritis treatment Humira. 4 April 2019
Medtech
Massachusetts-based Medrobotics has failed to convince the EU General Court that its trademark for ‘See More. Reach More. Treat More.’ should be registered. 4 April 2019
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office has issued a new CRISPR/Cas9 patent to inventor Emmanuelle Charpentier, one of the key figures in the CRISPR landscape. 4 April 2019
Biotechnology
The English High Court will hear a patent dispute between a subsidiary of biopharmaceutical company Sanofi and British-Dutch consumer goods brand Unilever. 3 April 2019
Biotechnology
European Patent Office president António Campinos will refer a recent decision on the patentability of exclusively obtained by essentially biological processes to the office’s Enlarged Board of Appeal. 2 April 2019
Big Pharma
Biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has entered into an agreement with Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo to develop and commercialise trastuzumab deruxtecan, a potential new medicine for cancer treatment. 2 April 2019
Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical company Impax Laboratories engaged in illegal pay-for-delay settlements to stop a generic version of one of its medications from entering the market, the US Federal Trade Commission has ruled. 1 April 2019
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, March 28, overturned a district court decision and handed a victory to pharmaceutical companies Endo and Mallinckrodt. 29 March 2019
Big Pharma
The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly confirms that a multi-factorial judgement should be used to determine whether an invention is obvious or not, lawyers have told WIPR. 28 March 2019