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The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has refused to dismiss a lawsuit from AbbVie which alleges Icelandic pharmaceutical company Alvotech infringed patents related to its arthritis drug Humira. 26 August 2021
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Bio-Rad Laboratories has settled its long-running dispute with 10X Genomics over patents covering genetic analysis tech and both companies have negotiated an agreement to cross-license their products. 29 July 2021
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A California jury has ordered Novartis to pay $178 million to rival drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo for willfully infringing two cancer drug patents. 26 July 2021
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Making sense of the newest Section 337 developments will be a key focus of The American Conference Institute’s 13th Annual Practitioners’ Think Tank on ITC Litigation and Enforcement. 23 June 2021
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Life Sciences IP Review has partnered with international law firm Gowling WLG to launch the Patent Litigation Survey to appraise the patent trends in biologics, biosimilars and next generation therapies. 22 June 2021
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Patent applicants with digital health inventions need to remember that being useful and novel may not be enough, warn Linda Thayer, Aaron Capron and Sneha Nyshadham of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. 22 June 2021
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A CRISPR patent filed by scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier alongside the Regents of the University of California and the University of Vienna has been upheld by the Japan Patent Office. 1 June 2021
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A Novartis unit, Sandoz, has failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to review two Amgen-owned patents on the rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel (etanercept). 18 May 2021
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Changes to China’s patent laws and a filing by a Wuhan lab involving Gilead’s remdesivir have set up an interesting patent race, says Thomas Moga of Dykema. 20 April 2021
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The updated rules included important changes involving amino or nucleic acid sequences and antibodies, as Clare Roskell and Samantha Moodie of Mathys & Squire explain. 6 April 2021