Biotech news
Americas
Dominican Republic-based Agroindustrial Ocoeña has asked a US court to dismiss its plant patent claim against a competitor run by the patent inventor’s brother. 12 June 2019
Americas
US-based Merck & Co has announced plans to buy Tilos Therapeutics, its latest acquisition in the immunotherapy space. 11 June 2019
Biotech
The US International Trade Commission has issued a judgment after a surgical appliances company, Polymer Technology Systems (PTS), filed a complaint against a China-based competitor. 10 June 2019
Americas
American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has secured an exclusive licence for a non-opioid, non-addictive chronic pain treatment from Boston-based biotech company Centrexion Therapeutics. 3 June 2019
Pharma
German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has entered into a second licence and collaboration agreement with Danish biotech company Gubra for the development of an obesity treatment. 30 May 2019
Americas
US biotechnology company Celgene has taken legal action against the registrant of a domain name which allegedly infringes Celgene’s trademarks. 30 May 2019
Biotech
A subsidiary of China-based genome sequencing company BGI has filed a patent infringement suit against a US competitor. 29 May 2019
Biotech
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new CRISPR/Cas9 patent to the University of California, the University of Vienna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier. 28 May 2019
Americas
Verily, which is a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, yesterday announced that it had partnered with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, and Sanofi in efforts to develop digitally-innovative clinical research programmes. 22 May 2019
Biotech
Precision medicine is an evolving field, which takes individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle into account when tackling disease treatment and prevention. LSIPR reports. 21 May 2019