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Medtech
Allograft tissue provider Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation , a non-profit organisation, has announced that its patent dispute with biopharmaceutical company MiMedx will go to trial early next year. 11 October 2017
Americas
US-based law firm Phelps Dunbar has appointed Fenita Morris-Shepard as a counsel in its life sciences practice. 10 October 2017
Big Pharma
If the UK government changes the rules for clinical trials after Brexit, the regimes in the UK and the EU will diverge and possibly make trials more complex and costly, as Rachel Bradley of Penningtons Manches reports. 10 October 2017
Americas
Purdue Pharma has sued Collegium Pharmaceutical, in the latest development in a continuing patent infringement dispute centring on Purdue’s painkiller drug OxyContin. 10 October 2017
Biotechnology
Gilead Sciences has signed licensing agreements with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and generic companies to provide greater access to HIV treatment bictegravir. 9 October 2017
Americas
Allergan and its subsidiary SkinMedica have been sued for copyright infringement after allegedly using a photographer’s images without permission. 9 October 2017
Americas
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe has said it is “outraged” by proposed legislation introduced by Senator Claire McCaskill aimed at tackling sovereign immunity. 6 October 2017
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated a permanent injunction awarded to Amgen in its dispute with Sanofi and Regeneron. 6 October 2017
Big Pharma
The chairman of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca wants a transition period of three years following the UK’s exit from the EU. 5 October 2017
Americas
The Association for Accessible Medicines, a generics industry trade group, has appealed against a judge’s decision that cleared the way for a new drug pricing law in Maryland. 5 October 2017