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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed and remanded a decision from a district court which ruled that a patented Millennium Pharmaceuticals cancer drug was invalid. 18 July 2017
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Eli Lilly has entered into a settlement agreement with generic companies Teva Pharmaceuticals and Watson Laboratories to resolve pending patent litigation over its drug Cialis. 18 July 2017
Big Pharma
DLA Piper has hired patent litigator Philipp Cepl as a partner in its German patent practice. 17 July 2017
Americas
A New Jersey judge has ruled today that Dr Reddy’s Laboratories infringed a patent owned by Horizon Pharma. 17 July 2017
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee has recommended approval of the first biosimilar version of trastuzumab, a breast cancer-fighting monoclonal antibody. 14 July 2017
Americas
Medical device company Alps South has filed a complaint against its former law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick for legal malpractice. 14 July 2017
Big Pharma
The Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s Supreme Court, has upheld a lower court’s ruling that granted a preliminary compulsory licence to use a patent protecting an HIV treatment. 13 July 2017
Americas
A collaboration between Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures , in partnership with conglomerate GE, has signed a licensing deal with US diagnostics technology company Access Bio to make and sell tools for “rapidly” identifying asymptomatic malaria. 13 July 2017
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The UK Supreme Court has reformulated the three questions that should be asked when testing for equivalent patent infringement. 12 July 2017
Americas
The patent system in the US and the EU is not rewarding complex research into treatments for a host of prevalent diseases and conditions, and reforms are going in the wrong direction, says Erika Lietzan of the University of Missouri School of Law. 12 July 2017