Biotech news
Americas
A Kentucky jury has awarded a seed company $2.4 million, after finding that an ex-employee had misappropriated trade secrets related to work on broccoli seeds and sprouts. 1 July 2019
Americas
Morrison & Foerster has strengthened its life sciences group with the addition of Bethany Hills as a partner in New York. 1 July 2019
Americas
The US Patent and Trademark Office has revived the dispute between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley over which first invented the CRISPR gene-editing technology. 27 June 2019
Americas
The next event in ACI’s Women Leaders in Law series, on July 25 & 26 in Boston, brings together in-house and private practice professionals from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. 26 June 2019
Americas
Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is seeking a share of the $1.6 billion in licensing revenue that BMS and Ono Pharmaceutical Co have allegedly received from six immunotherapy patents. 25 June 2019
Pharma
Pfizer’s attempt to secure an Arrow declaration in relation to its proposed launch of a cancer drug in Europe was shot down yesterday, June 20, by the English High Court. 21 June 2019
Pharma
US biopharmaceutical company Pfizer has entered agreed to acquire Array BioPharma, a biotechnology company which develops small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. 17 June 2019
Americas
British-based pharmaceutical company GSK has entered into a five-year collaboration with the University of California to explore how gene mutations cause disease and accelerate drug discovery. 14 June 2019
Americas
BASF Plant Science, the plant biotech-focused subsidiary of BASF, has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a finding that certain claims of a transgenic plant technology patent were invalid. 13 June 2019
Biotech
A Russian scientist is planning to create CRISPR-edited babies, despite the widespread condemnation levelled at the first scientist who created ‘edited’ twins. 12 June 2019