Latest News & Features
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed a win to medical equipment company Smith & Nephew yesterday in a dispute over an endoscopic patent. 15 March 2018
Americas
Four people have been arrested and charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods, after an investigation found that they had sold fake dietary supplements for male enhancement or weight loss. 14 March 2018
Europe
The number of ‘pay-for-delay’ patent settlements in the EU has “stabilised at a low level”, according to the European Commission. 13 March 2018
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has delivered Kaz USA with a mixed verdict in a patent infringement appeal case. 13 March 2018
Americas
Allergan and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe have argued that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board doesn’t have the jurisdiction to decide on the validity of patents concerning a dry-eye treatment while its recent decision is being appealed. 13 March 2018
Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical company Recordati suffered a setback last week after the EU General Court dismissed its appeal over a trademark registration. 12 March 2018
Americas
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai has teamed up with US-based Merck in a deal intended to strengthen the worldwide development and commercialisation of cancer drug Lenvima. 9 March 2018
Big Pharma
European Council president Donald Tusk appears to have shot down the possibility of the UK remaining part of some EU agencies, including the European Medicines Agency (EMA), after Brexit. 8 March 2018
Big Pharma
The German Federal Patent Court has set aside a decision by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office to reject a supplementary protection certificatesupplementary protection certificate that GSK Biologicals had applied for, in a decision of “fundamental importance”. 8 March 2018
Europe
The European Patent Office has granted a second CRISPR/Cas9 patent to a specialist genomics company, one month after revoking the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT’s patent relating to the technology. 7 March 2018