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Americas
Law firm Proskauer Rose has expanded its life sciences patent practice by hiring Fangli Chen as a partner and Daniel Klein as a senior patent counsel. 16 March 2016
Asia
Activist organisation Médecins Sans Frontières has challenged Pfizer’s patent application covering the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on the grounds that it is obvious. 15 March 2016
Asia
A Switzerland-based drug licensing agency has warned that counterfeit packs of hepatitis C drug Harvoni have been imported into Switzerland. 14 March 2016
Americas
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has rejected three inter partes reviews filed by Kyle Bass’s organisation the Coalition for Affordable Drugs. 11 March 2016
Americas
The US Patent and Trademark Office has opened proceedings to determine who owns the rights to the CRISPR/Cas9 technology. 11 March 2016
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration has appointed Stephen Ostroff to deputy commissioner for food and veterinary medicine. 10 March 2016
Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca agreed a deal with ProStrakan Group centring on the rights to the Moventig (naloxegol) drug in Europe. 9 March 2016
Africa
The UK Intellectual Property Office has issued a favourable decision on an SPC for an “innovative” combination product. David Carling and Michael Pears of Potter Clarkson explain the reasoning and examine its implications. 9 March 2016
Big Pharma
In February the English High Court ruled that Actavis had not indirectly infringed a patent owned by Eli Lilly directed to cancer drug Alimta. David Read of Bartle Read reports. 8 March 2016
Biotechnology
The English High Court has allowed Japan-based drug maker Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics to amend some of its arguments in a patent dispute surrounding AbbVie’s arthritis drug Humira. 8 March 2016