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Big Pharma
Pressure is building on IP owners to offer up access to technology that could help fight COVID-19. Rory O'Neill looks at some of the implications for the patent system. 21 April 2020
Americas
A total of 79 vaccines and 155 drugs are currently being developed across the globe to combat COVID-19, according to statistics from the Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment. 21 April 2020
Big Pharma
New legislation has been enacted to help in the efforts to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, as Daphne Lainson and Nancy Pei of Smart & Biggar report. 21 April 2020
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned a lower court’s decision to find a heart monitoring patent invalid under Alice, handing a win to medical laboratory company BioTelemetry. 20 April 2020
Medtech
The UK government will indemnify ventilator manufacturers from the financial burden arising from any potential IP breaches, as health services around the world scramble to up their capacity of the devices. 16 April 2020
Americas
Bulgaria-based Huvepharma has accused chemicals company BASF and Dutch life sciences Koninklijke DSM, known as Royal DSM, of infringing its feed additive. 16 April 2020
Americas
Six state attorneys have joined a suit filed against incarcerated ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli and his company Vyera Pharmaceuticals for allegedly monopolising the market for a life-saving drug. 16 April 2020
Big Pharma
An association representing Indian cancer patients has asked the country’s government to cancel Gilead Sciences’ patents on remdesivir, the experimental antiviral which is hoped can be used to treat coronavirus. 15 April 2020
Big Pharma
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are pooling resources to create a vaccine for COVID-19, in what they call an “unprecedented” collaboration between the two pharma companies. 14 April 2020
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ordered a new trial in a patent dispute between Abbott-subsidiary Alere and patent monetisation company Rembrandt Diagnostics. 14 April 2020