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IP law firm Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC has announced the election of three new directors to its life sciences team. 14 January 2014
Americas
Biopharmaceutical company Alnylam has paid Merck $175 million for its subsidiary Sirna Therapeutics, a firm specialising in RNA interference therapeutics. 13 January 2014
Americas
General Electric has bought three life sciences divisions from US company Thermo Fisher Scientific in a deal worth about $1.06 billion. 13 January 2014
Americas
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP has hired Edward Glynn, a former senior official at the Federal Trade Commission. 9 January 2014
Americas
Anishiya Abrol, a life sciences IP specialist, has been promoted to counsel at law firm Hogan Lovells. 8 January 2014
Americas
Enzo Biochem, a US biotechnology company, has received another $12.4 million from a patent ruling against Applera Corp, bringing the total damages sum to around $61 million. 7 January 2014
Big Pharma
EIP has hired IP litigator Matthew Jones from Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe as a partner. 7 January 2014
Americas
IP litigator Thomas Wintner has been appointed partner at Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. 6 January 2014
Americas
Biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has paid $4.1 billion to acquire Bristol Myers Squibb’s share of the firms’ diabetes business venture. 20 December 2013
Americas
Viagra-maker Pfizer Ltd and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries have agreed to settle patent litigation related to Teva’s generic version of Viagra (sildenafil citrate) tablets. 19 December 2013