Biotech news
Biotech
For a start-up looking to build a patent portfolio, where should you start—‘home-grown’ patents, or licensing others’ IP? 11 June 2020
Americas
Protein engineering company Codexis has accused competitor Codex DNA of trademark infringement through the use of a “virtually identical” mark. 27 May 2020
Americas
Canada’s Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food has accused a Washington-based nursery, a fruit seller, and a fruit grower of infringing a plant patent covering the Staccato type of cherry tree. 20 May 2020
Pharma
Sanofi is facing criticism after CEO Paul Hudson said the US was likely to have priority access on any COVID-19 vaccine produced by the French pharmaceutical company. 15 May 2020
Pharma
IP firm HGF has appointed two patent attorneys to partner, increasing the partner group to 63 partners. 11 May 2020
Pharma
The exciting field of microbiome therapeutics offers many opportunities for ‘Big Pharma’ players that are staring over the exclusivity cliff, say Craig Thomson, Leena Contarino and Andrew Wells of HGF. 6 May 2020
Biotech
The University of Oxford has partnered with UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to develop and manufacture the university’s trial COVID-19 vaccine. 30 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
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
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