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Generics
The Delhi High Court has cleared the way for a generic version of Novartis’ small-cell lung cancer drug Ceritinib, after the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s patent was revoked. 29 August 2019
Americas
A US judge yesterday, August 28 ruled in favour of Sanofi and Regeneron in the pharmaceutical companies’ long-running patent dispute with Amgen over the cholesterol drug Praluent. 29 August 2019
Big Pharma
The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board has instituted an inter partes review into a patent covering an opioid overdose treatment owned by Nalox-1 Pharmaceuticals. 29 August 2019
Biotechnology
For all the importance of the role of government and private sector bodies in the realisation of precision medicine, it’s important not to lose sight of the interests and concerns of those precision medicine intends to treat—the patients and public at large, write Daniel Lim and Anna Jackson of Kirkland & Ellis. 29 August 2019
Big Pharma
Biotech company Ionis Pharmaceuticals is to license its antisense medicines, used to treat people with chronic hepatitis B, to GlaxoSmithKline. 28 August 2019
Americas
US company Arcadia Biosciences has reached a settlement with Arista Cereal Technologies and Bay State Milling Company, bringing an end to a patent infringement dispute between the two parties. 27 August 2019
Big Pharma
A Takeda subsidiary cannot overturn a $155 million jury verdict that it infringed one of Bayer’s patents, a district court has ruled. 27 August 2019
Big Pharma
Amgen has entered into an agreement with Celgene to acquire worldwide rights to Otezla, the only oral, non-biologic treatment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, for $13.4 billion. 27 August 2019
Big Pharma
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a final order settling charges that healthcare company UnitedHealth’s $4.3 billion acquisition of DaVita Medical would harm competition. 23 August 2019
Americas
Gilead Sciences, the maker of HIV drug Truvada, has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to review patents granted to the government covering preventative use of the drug. 22 August 2019