Biotech news
Americas
A new law on supplementary protection certificates will be implemented on April 1, with the application, prosecution and maintenance of SPCs taking centre stage. José Manuel González
of Clarke, Modet & Co reports. 27 March 2017
Americas
Fluorescent reagent company Biotium has filed a complaint against biotech company Genecopoeia for patent and trademark infringement, as well as unfair competition. 21 March 2017
Americas
Dow Agrosciences has secured attorneys’ fees from Bayer in a patent dispute, after Bayer failed in its appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 20 March 2017
Asia
There is an urgent need for an effective global legal regime to prevent bio piracy, according to Rita Teaotia, commerce secretary of India. 16 March 2017
Americas
Mylan has entered a settlement with Genentech and its parent company, Roche, in relation to patents for cancer drug Herceptin. 15 March 2017
Americas
President Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal may have particularly pernicious consequences for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, writes Kevin Noonan of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. 15 March 2017
Americas
Amgen has said in a brief filed at the US Supreme Court that Sandoz “attempts to undermine” the balance between innovation and consumer interests. 14 March 2017
Americas
Two biotech associations have filed a petition asking the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to clarify rules on whether arguments can be brought at a district court if they have been brought at the US Patent and Trademark Office. 7 March 2017
Biotech
The English High Court has ruled in favour of Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics in a case against AbbVie, granting Fujifilm an Arrow declaration allowing it to market a biosimilar of AbbVie’s Humira (adalimumab), a medication used to treat arthritis. 6 March 2017
Pharma
The World Health Organization has published a list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens”, a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria which it claims pose the greatest threat to human health. 28 February 2017