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Americas
The US District Court for the District Court of Delaware has ruled in favour of Sweden-based pharmaceutical company Orexo in a patent battle against Actavis over Zubsolv. 17 November 2016
Americas
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Enterome, a pharmaceutical development and diagnostic company, have entered into a collaboration agreement focusing on immuno-oncology. 17 November 2016
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday remanded a case concerning surgical instruments back to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 16 November 2016
Africa
Pharmaceutical company Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme have recovered a domain name that infringed a trademark at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration and Mediation Center. 16 November 2016
Americas
A jury has decided that UK-based medical device company Medtronic must pay $20.3 million in damages to a doctor for patent infringement. 15 November 2016
Big Pharma
The English Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by US company Idenix Pharmaceuticals in a patent battle against Gilead Sciences. 15 November 2016
Americas
Allergan has filed a complaint against pharmaceutical wholesaler Amazon Medica in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division for alleged trademark infringement. 14 November 2016
Americas
US-based law firm Merchant & Gould has hired a new partner to its Silicon Valley and Minneapolis offices. 14 November 2016
Americas
The Supreme Court of Canada heard oral arguments in AstraZeneca v Apotex and reserved its decision about patent utility and the ‘promise doctrine’, in a case centring on pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s heartburn relief drug Nexium. 11 November 2016
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a mixed ruling on a case yesterday between medical device company NuVasive and the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 10 November 2016