Biotech news
Americas
Amgen and Sandoz are set to go head to head in another patent case, this time centring on Amgen’s arthritis treatment drug Enbrel. 3 March 2016
Pharma
The European Commission is considering whether ‘export waivers’ should be introduced in order to partly relax the rules on supplementary protection certificates. Gareth Morgan of Olswang explains more. 1 March 2016
Americas
Californian genetic analysis company Illumina has sued UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies, which develops nanopore sequencing products. 26 February 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Codexis has sued a rival and its founder for allegedly stealing trade secrets and infringing up to ten patents. 24 February 2016
Americas
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has returned almost $700 million to investors that backed his inter partes review challenges, but has vowed to continue challenging pharmaceutical patents after being given the green light to tackle another. 24 February 2016
Americas
Sandoz has petitioned the US Supreme Court to review the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s ruling in the ‘patent dance’ dispute. 17 February 2016
Americas
Law firm Steptoe & Johnson has hired Ying Li as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property group in New York. 16 February 2016
Pharma
Law firm Fieldfisher has expanded its life sciences patent litigation and intellectual property practice by hiring Diana Sternfeld, Nicole Jadeja, and Rebecca Baines as partners. 11 February 2016
Americas
Following several high-profile decisions by the US Supreme Court making it harder to patent biotech inventions, parties should follow several best practices to give their products the best chance of being patented. Kathryn Hull of Gordon Rees provides some tips. 11 February 2016
Americas
The chief executive of biotechnology Twist Bioscience has been accused of stealing trade secrets belonging to her former employer. 5 February 2016