Biotech news
Asia-Pacific
Phylogica, an Australian drug discovery company, has extended its research collaboration and licensing agreement with Genentech to discover novel antibiotics. 21 December 2016
Americas
Biopharmaceutical company UCB Biopharma has filed a complaint against biotech developer MedImmune for alleged patent infringement. 15 December 2016
Biotech
Denmark-based ExpreS2ion Biotechnology and Abivax, a French biotechnology company, have entered into a service and commercial licensing agreement under which the companies will collaborate in their development of a treatment for Ebola. 15 December 2016
Americas
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a biosimilar case between Apotex and Amgen yesterday. 13 December 2016
Americas
Law firm Foley Hoag has promoted Karen Tepichin to partner, one of eight partnership appointments announced on Tuesday, December 6. 9 December 2016
Americas
Following the CRISPR/Cas9 patent hearing on December 6 between The Broad Institute and University of California, Berkeley, it is very unlikely that the case will end at the US Patent and Trademark Office, according to one lawyer. 8 December 2016
Biotech
Heli Pihlajamaa, director of patent law at the European Patent Office, yesterday outlined the latest developments in the area of plant patentability. 8 December 2016
Pharma
Data exclusivity should be considered as part of an intellectual property portfolio, according to a speaker at the Life Sciences Patents Network Europe conference. 8 December 2016
Pharma
Drugs companies that acquire other businesses should act cautiously after the deal has been completed, because of potential differences in patent strategy, an Eli Lilly counsel has said. 7 December 2016
Pharma
The Unified Patent Court Agreement has not quite reached a safe harbour yet, but it is close. 7 December 2016