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Americas
A US resident has been charged with trafficking counterfeit erectile dysfunction pills, the government has revealed. 8 October 2015
Asia-Pacific
Australia’s highest court has said that naturally occurring nucleic acid molecules are not patentable, overturning a lower court ruling. 7 October 2015
Asia-Pacific
Australia’s government has said the period of data exclusivity available for biological drugs in the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be five years, despite pressure from the US to extend it to 12. 7 October 2015
Europe
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ended the uncertainty over the term of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) by ruling that they begin once a party is notified of a marketing authorisation for a drug. 6 October 2015
Americas
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear manufacturer W L Gore & Associates’s request for clarity on whether US patent law stipulates that patent licensing agreements must be placed in writing. 6 October 2015
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a lower court’s ruling that Spectrum Pharmaceuticals’s Fusilev patent is invalid and wasn’t infringed by generics company Sandoz. 5 October 2015
Americas
Law firm Goodwin Procter has promoted five lawyers to partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice, including two life sciences specialists. 5 October 2015
Americas
The US Federal Trade Commission has intervened in a ‘product hopping’ dispute concerning an acne treatment drug. 2 October 2015
Big Pharma
Representatives from the pharmaceutical and engineering industries have said that the decision to opt existing patents into the Unified Patent Court will be a strategic decision done on a case-by-case basis. 2 October 2015
Big Pharma
The UK health secretary has been urged by a health campaigning group to issue a compulsory licence for a breast cancer patent owned by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche. 1 October 2015