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Americas
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has expanded its IP group and hired Grace Pan as partner. 3 December 2013
Big Pharma
Novartis Pharmaceuticals has filed a lawsuit against US drug manufacturer Roxane Laboratories disputing an application for a schizophrenia drug. 3 December 2013
Americas
How can ‘big’ data help drug candidates through the pipeline? And who does the data belong to? LSIPR spoke to NuMedii chief executive Gini Deshpande. 3 December 2013
Asia-Pacific
As the largest science research institute in Japan, Riken has an important role in promoting innovation. LSIPR talked to Akihiro Fujita, director of the institute’s research cluster for innovation, about the place of intellectual property in that endeavour. 3 December 2013
Americas
The first US court decision applying the Myriad decision has landed, and it makes for interesting reading, as Antoinette Konski reports. 3 December 2013
Asia-Pacific
Takeda has announced that Christophe Weber, a member of GlaxoSmithKline’s global corporate executive team, will be joining the company as chief operating officer by April next year. 2 December 2013
Asia
US investment firm KKR has bought a stake in Indian pharmaceutical company Gland Pharma for approximately $200 million. 29 November 2013
Americas
The US government has said it is now advocating a “differential” approach to policies on patenting drugs as part of continuing trade negotiations with Pacific countries. 29 November 2013
Americas
Genetic diagnostics company Invitae Corporation has requested declaratory judgment at the US District Court for the Northern District of California that it does not infringe 11 patents owned or exclusively licensed to Myriad Genetics. 28 November 2013
Asia
India is considering altering its requirements for filing drug patents in a bid to create more transparency in the pharmaceutical market, it has been claimed. 27 November 2013