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Americas
Law firm Gowlings has expanded its intellectual property practice by hiring Stephen Ferance as a partner. 20 July 2015
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Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has added to its intellectual property practice in New York by hiring Paul Keller as a partner. 17 July 2015
Americas
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has partly accepted pharmaceutical company Lupin Limited’s petition for an inter partes review of claims in a patent covering a compound that helps to treat HIV. 16 July 2015
Big Pharma
Despite its troubled start, Brazil’s Product Development Partnerships programme is now entering a new stage of its development with the introduction of a more complete system for regulation, but there’s also more scope for patent infringement, say Otto Licks and Ricardo Campello of Licks Attorneys. 16 July 2015
Asia
AstraZeneca has agreed a deal with drug maker Kyowa Hakko Kirin giving the UK pharmaceutical company the option to commercialise an asthma treatment in Japan. 16 July 2015
Americas
Japanese drug maker R-Tech Ueno has sued Apotex for patent infringement after the Canadian-based pharmaceutical company allegedly applied to create a generic version of one of its eye treatment drugs. 15 July 2015
Americas
US law firm Haynes and Boone has expanded its intellectual property practice by hiring two partners. 13 July 2015
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Teva has become the first business to launch a generic version of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’s migraine treatment drug Axert (almotriptan malate). 13 July 2015
Americas
Law firm Fenwick & West has expanded its life sciences practice by hiring Daniel Becker as partner. 10 July 2015
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office has invalidated a patent covering genetically modified mice and rats. 9 July 2015