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Asia-Pacific
Australia’s patent system is “poorly targeted” and protection for pharmaceutical inventions is “excessive”, according to a government advisory committee. 4 May 2016
Americas
A judge assessing a patent dispute between Merck and Gilead centring on hepatitis C treatments has allowed Gilead to submit new evidence of jurors allegedly being misled. 3 May 2016
Africa
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization has welcomed the US Trade Representative’s “Special 301 Report”, which it said “aims to advance global IP rights in biotechnology in a number of constructive ways”. 29 April 2016
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
Africa
Ahead of the English Court of Appeal’s hearing in May in the Warner-Lambert case on second medical use patents, Charlotte Weekes and Tamsin Cornwell of Pinsent Masons examine some of the unanswered questions. 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
Unlike in the EU, Canada does not have additional pharma patent protection to compensate for regulatory delays, but that looks set to change, as Shirley Liang, an IP lawyer in Canada, explains. 21 April 2016