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Africa
Advocate group Médecins Sans Frontières delivered a suitcase full of syringes to the London headquarters of pharmaceutical company GSK in protest at the price of a pneumonia vaccine. 28 April 2016
Americas
Patent litigation related to Abbreviated New Drug Applications has increased by nearly 70% in the last two years, a report has claimed. 27 April 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Takeda has recovered a domain name that is confusingly similar to its trademark. 26 April 2016
Americas
A group of biotechnology industry associations has stepped into the Ariosa v Sequenom dispute, which may be reviewed by the US Supreme Court. 25 April 2016
Big Pharma
Genetics analysis company Illumina has sued Switzerland-based Genoma. 22 April 2016
Americas
Law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired Keeto Sabharwal as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice in Washington, DC. 21 April 2016
Americas
German pharmaceutical company Merck has hit back at claims that it violated a trademark coexistence agreement with US-based Merck Sharp & Dohme. 20 April 2016
Biotechnology
New industry body the British Biosimilars Association has officially launched in the UK. 19 April 2016
Asia
Indian-based drugs companies BDR Pharmaceutical and Lee Pharmaceutical have reportedly abandoned their attempt to produce generic versions of two drugs developed by AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb. 18 April 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Allergan has sued India-based Famy Care, accusing it of infringing a patent covering a drug used to treat chronic dry eye. 15 April 2016