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Morrison & Foerster has strengthened its life sciences group with the addition of Bethany Hills as a partner in New York. 1 July 2019
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Pfizer has appointed former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb to its board. 28 June 2019
Big Pharma
Industry has welcomed the British government’s announcement that it will take steps to secure additional freight capacity to deal with a shortage of pharmaceuticals in the event of a no-deal Brexit. 27 June 2019
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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
Big Pharma
A US court has issued an injunction barring the manufacture of generic versions of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis’ multiple sclerosis drug Gileyna. 26 June 2019
Americas
US drug maker AbbVie has agreed to buy Allergan, the Ireland-headquartered maker of Botox, for $63 billion, in the latest blockbuster deal for the pharmaceutical industry. 25 June 2019
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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
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, June 24, upheld a lower court’s finding that UCB’s patent is infringed by a planned generic version of Neupro, a patch to treat Parkinson’s disease. 25 June 2019
Big Pharma
A US court has upheld a decision that eight claims of one of Mayne Pharma’s patents are unpatentable for obviousness over prior art after a validity challenge was brought by a subsidiary of Merck & Co. 25 June 2019
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International law firm CMS has promoted two attorneys from its IP team in London to partner. 21 June 2019