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Biotechnology
China must safeguard IP in the seed industry to ensure innovation within the sector, the group chairman of Chinese multinational Sinochem, Frank Ning, has warned. 11 March 2021
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Ferring Pharmaceuticals has asked The District Court for the Southern District of New York to impose sanctions on law firm Jones Day for allegedly forcing its client Serenity Pharmaceuticals into pursuing litigation against Ferring. 11 March 2021
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As a follow-on from last week's Regeneron v Kymab webinar, where we looked at how and why the Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal and found Regeneron's patents for transgenic mouse technology invalid for insufficiency, we pick up the discussion to reflect on the broader impact of the ruling. 11 March 2021
Europe
The UK has been urged to back a proposed IP waiver related to COVID-19 treatments before the World Trade Organisation by business leaders, academics, economists and trade unions. 11 March 2021
Americas
AstraZeneca has won a three-year legal battle against UK generics manufacturer Mylan Pharmaceuticals over its asthma inhaler patents. 9 March 2021
Biotechnology
The fallout from the landmark Regeneron v Kymab is still being weighed by the UK life sciences community. 9 March 2021
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The director general of the World Health Organization has called for a waiver on IP rights to ensure more equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. 9 March 2021
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On June 24, 2020, a seven-year long legal battle between two biotech companies finally concluded in the UK. 8 March 2021
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UK innovation hub CPI has received a further £5 million investment from the UK government to support the development of new mRNA vaccines to protect against new variants of COVID-19. 4 March 2021
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GlaxoSmithKline has avoided paying $57 million in damages after a US supreme court reversed a ruling that the pharmaceutical company should not have stopped issuing royalties on a lupus drug. 4 March 2021