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Africa
The World Trade Organization has granted permission for the world’s Least Developed Countries to be exempt from administering and enforcing patents directed to pharmaceutical drugs. 6 November 2015
Americas
AstraZeneca has sued Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories claiming that the colour purple, used by DRL on its generic version of AZ’s Nexium (esomeprazole), infringes its trademarks. 5 November 2015
Big Pharma
The World Trade Organization is expected to announce a 17-year extension to an agreement that exempts the world’s Least Developed Countries from a duty to grant patents covering pharmaceutical drugs, an activist group has claimed. 4 November 2015
Americas
Wearable technology maker Jawbone has accused rival Fitbit of using patent litigation and “poaching” key employees to hurt it commercially in an anti-competition claim filed at a US court. 3 November 2015
Americas
Wearable technology company Fitbit has accused competitor Aliphcom of infringing a number of its patents covering devices that record an individual’s fitness. 2 November 2015
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two separate judgments concerning the alleged infringement of a patent covering an access control mechanism for a wireless network by medical device makers Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. 30 October 2015
Americas
US law firm Baker Donelson has expanded its Memphis office by hiring Cong Ding as of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property group. 30 October 2015
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has confirmed it has entered into talks with generics company Allergan over a potential merger. 29 October 2015
Big Pharma
The English High Court has affirmed the validity of the Ono Pharmaceutical’s cancer immunotherapy drug after it was challenged by pharmaceutical company Merck. 29 October 2015
Biotechnology
There is “clearly a lot of unrest” in the patent law on molecular diagnostics, according to the head of licensing at Roche Diagnostics. 28 October 2015