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Americas
Medical devices maker Greatbatch has secured a $37.5 million patent victory at a US court. 27 January 2016
Americas
As reflected in numerous recent court opinions, the broad Supreme Court rulings of Mayo, Myriad and Alice have drastically changed the landscape of patent-eligibility in diagnostics. Jenny Shmuel and Megan Chacon of Fish & Richardson review the situation and discuss some future scenarios. 27 January 2016
Americas
US law firm Wolf Greenfield has promoted Jenny Chen, Thomas Franklin and Jessamine Lee to shareholders. 27 January 2016
Americas
Law firm Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik has hired Tedd Van Buskirk as partner in its intellectual property practice in Westfield, New Jersey. 26 January 2016
Africa
Pharmaceutical companies including Cipla and Natco Pharma have signed a sub-licensing deal enabling them to produce a generic version of Bristol Myers Squibb’s hepatitis C drug Daclatasvir. 26 January 2016
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rejected Pfizer’s plea to extend the term of a patent centring on cancer treatment, upholding a lower court’s ruling that cleared the US Patent and Trademark Office of wrongdoing. 25 January 2016
Americas
Law firm Barnes & Thornburg has hired Scott Rothenberger and Jeffrey Stone as partners in the firm’s intellectual property department in Minneapolis. 22 January 2016
Americas
The US government has charged five Chinese scientists with conspiring to steal confidential research into anti-cancer drugs belonging to pharmaceutical company GSK. 22 January 2016
Americas
Law firm Hogan Lovells has hired Michael Dougherty and Tony Pezzano as partners in the firm’s intellectual property media and technology practice group in New York. 21 January 2016
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office has revoked Monsanto’s patent covering virus-resistant melons on technical grounds, following opposition to its registration by the Indian government and activist group No Patents on Seeds. 21 January 2016