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Big Pharma
King’s College London has entered a licensing and collaboration agreement with US pharmaceutical company Merck & Co to develop new chronic pain medications. 11 March 2019
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The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced draft revisions to its policy on the naming of biosimilars, in an attempt to appease critics who say that renaming previously-licensed products is too expensive. 8 March 2019
Medtech
The US International Trade Commission has instituted an investigation into certain blood separation and cell preparation devices. 8 March 2019
Biotechnology
Activist group No Patents on Seeds has filed an opposition against a patent on lettuce, owned by Dutch food supplier Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt. 7 March 2019
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, March 6, refused to rehear a decision which found Allergan and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s patents for dry-eye treatment Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion) are invalid. 7 March 2019
Europe
The EU General Court today, March 6, rejected an appeal against an European Union Intellectual Property Office decision to reject the registration of a mark formerly owned by Allergan. 6 March 2019
Americas
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, resigned from his post yesterday, March 5, with plans to step down in the next month. 6 March 2019
Americas
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think tank has called on the US National Institutions of Health to maintain IP protection amid calls to “break” patents in order to lower drug prices. 5 March 2019
Big Pharma
An opinion on whether a supplementary protection certificate can be granted to an owner of a drug patent when the marketing authorisation is held by a third party is overdue, lawyers told LSIPR. 5 March 2019
Big Pharma
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that pharmaceutical companies Auden Mckenzie and Waymade engaged in anti-competitive behaviour relating to hydrocortisone tablets. 4 March 2019