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The US Supreme Court has upheld the doctrine of assignor estoppel in a dispute between Minerva and Hologic but has narrowed its scope. 29 June 2021
Big Pharma
Roche subsidiary Genentech received $209.5 million in unnecessary payments from Novartis Pharma for a patent licensing deal and is now refusing to return the payment, the Swiss pharma giant has alleged in a redacted complaint. 29 June 2021
Big Pharma
On June 1, 2021, the Chinese government implemented crucial changes to its patent laws, hoping to create better protections for national and international inventors. 29 June 2021
Americas
Generic drug maker Flatwing Pharmaceuticals has lost its bid to offset nearly $690,000 in fees and expenses to Pfizer unit Anacor Pharmaceuticals after a US federal judge ruled that the “circumstances were not exceptional” enough to warrant the shift. 29 June 2021
Big Pharma
Law firm Barnes & Thornburg has announced the opening of a Boston office, its twentieth in the US, with six partners. 24 June 2021
Europe
A Warrington-based distributor of aesthetic and cosmetic products has lost its UK trademark for a dermal filler brand after the English High Court found it to have registered the brand in bad faith. 24 June 2021
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Amendments to Chinese patent law went into effect on June 1, 2021. Some of these amendments have important consequences for life sciences patent practice in China. The most striking change is the establishment of a system for resolving patent disputes in the life sciences. 24 June 2021
Big Pharma
Supplementary protection certificates outlive medicinal patents in more than nine in ten cases, a new report has found. 24 June 2021
Big Pharma
Taiwanese pharmaceutical company PharmaEssentia Corporation has failed to convince a district court judge to throw out a €140 million award to AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals. 23 June 2021
Biotechnology
Making sense of the newest Section 337 developments will be a key focus of The American Conference Institute’s 13th Annual Practitioners’ Think Tank on ITC Litigation and Enforcement. 23 June 2021