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Americas
Law firm Schiff Hardin has added Cindy Ahn as counsel in its intellectual property practice group. 2 April 2015
Americas
Forest Labs, a subsidiary of Actavis, has sued InvaGen for allegedly infringing four patents covering depression drug Viibryd, in what is the fifth related lawsuit. 1 April 2015
Americas
A US appeals court has overturned a district court's decision to deny Apotex's request for a declaratory judgment that its proposed generic blood pressure drug would not infringe a patent owned by pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo. 1 April 2015
Asia
The Indian government is “seriously considering” extending the term of data exclusivity protection for agrochemical inventions from three to five years, it has been claimed. 1 April 2015
Americas
Purdue Pharma has sued Collegium Pharmaceutical for allegedly infringing four of its patents relating to extended release painkiller OxyContin. 1 April 2015
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration has denied Amgen’s petition asking that the so-called patent dance between a biosimilar maker and the product’s innovator be a mandatory requirement. 30 March 2015
Biotechnology
An appeals board at the European Patent Office has said that any patent applications covering a “product-by-process” method for developing plants can be granted. 27 March 2015
Americas
Cancer treatment company Helsinn and pharmaceutical company Roche have sued Hospira for allegedly infringing five patents covering intravenous anti-nausea drug Aloxi. 25 March 2015
Americas
Massachusetts-based biotechnology company ImmunoGen has granted pharmaceutical company Takeda exclusive rights to use its antibody-drug conjugate technology to develop and commercialise cancer drugs. 25 March 2015
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday upheld a district court's decision that pharmaceutical company Exela infringed two patents covering Cadence Pharmaceuticals’s injectable Ofirmev, used for pain relief. 24 March 2015