Biotech news
Americas
US biotechnology company 10x Genomics has won an import ban against its rival Bio-Rad Laboratories in a long-running patent dispute. 13 February 2020
Americas
Bristol-Myers Squibb and BioMotiv, a drug development accelerator, have launched Anteros Pharmaceuticals, a biotech focused on developing a new class of drugs for fibrotic and other inflammatory diseases. 5 February 2020
Biotech
The UK Intellectual Property Office and the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys have worked together to ensure changes are made to “misleading” advice issued by the EU’s Community Plant Variety Office. 3 February 2020
Biotech
Arnold & Porter partner Richard Dickinson has joined Bristows as a partner in its commercial and IP transactional practice in London. 28 January 2020
Pharma
Secondary medical use case trends and research exemptions are just two issues set to be discussed at C5’s 12th Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation meeting, on February 25–26 in Amsterdam. 27 January 2020
Americas
Jason Markwell, a former partner at Belmore Neidrauer, has joined Fasken’s IP group in its Toronto office. 24 January 2020
Americas
A life sciences litigator from Williams & Connolly has joined Latham & Watkins’ Washington, DC office. 22 January 2020
Biotech
German biotech Jennewein has accused Nestlé Nutrition of infringing patents covering a process of purifying human milk oligosaccharides to make its infant formula. 14 January 2020
Americas
A San Diego biotechnology company has been refused a trademark registration for ‘Sequencing by Binding’ on the grounds that it is too descriptive. 8 January 2020
Americas
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted the University of California its 20th US patent on CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technologies. 2 January 2020