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Europe
A prenatal test sold by molecular diagnostics company Premaitha Health infringes patents owned by genetic sequencing firm Illumina, a UK court has ruled. 22 November 2017
Americas
A US district court has granted Swiss agribusiness Syngenta a permanent injunction against pesticide maker Willowood, two months after Syngenta secured nearly $1 million in damages from a jury verdict. 22 November 2017
Big Pharma
The European Medicines Agency will relocate from its London, UK headquarters to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. 21 November 2017
Americas
Eli Lilly appears to be mulling whether to oppose a trademark registered by Bristol-Myers Squibb at the US Patent and Trademark Office. 21 November 2017
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed a win to BASF yesterday, after the chemical company appealed against a finding that its patent was invalid. 21 November 2017
Americas
Merck has continued to strengthen its expertise in immunotherapy with the signing of a research collaboration and licence agreement with Cue Biopharma. 20 November 2017
Americas
A group of 14 educational institutions in Texas and biotech company TissueGen have sued a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson for infringing two patents covering biodegradable fibres. 17 November 2017
Big Pharma
The English High Court has refused to grant Eli Lilly an injunction which would have stopped Teva, Actavis and Mylan marketing a generic version of its drug Cialis (tadalafil). 17 November 2017
Americas
NPS Pharmaceuticals suffered a knock-back yesterday, when the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision which found that claims covering a patent owned by NPS were unpatentable. 16 November 2017
Americas
Bayer has entered into a global collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Loxo Oncology, in a deal that could be worth more than $1 billion. 16 November 2017