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The Supreme Court’s Limelight decision makes it particularly difficult for the owners of diagnostic method patents to enforce those patents against a third party selling the assay. MaryAnne Armstrong of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch describes the current situation. 16 June 2015
Americas
Despite the SPC Regulation having been in existence for decades, applicants are still left to navigate uncertain waters on issues of fundamental importance when it comes to ‘combination’ therapies, as Michael Pears of Potter Clarkson reports. 16 June 2015
Americas
Recent changes in US patent law have made protecting and enforcing patents directed to digital healthcare inventions more challenging, as Marsha Gillentine and Michelle Holoubek of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox explain. 16 June 2015
Americas
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are in “very good shape” and the so-called patent cliff is “firmly in the rear view mirror”, according to a report by life sciences market research company Evaluate. 16 June 2015
Big Pharma
This year’s Life Sciences Law Forum is taking place on June 25 in London. LSIPR caught up with the conference’s chair James Horgan, of Merck Sharp & Dohme, and GlaxoSmithKline counsel Anthony Kenny to find out what’s keeping them busy and what they’ll discuss on the day. 16 June 2015
Americas
As far we know, the IP chapter in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement contains provisions on modernising plant breeders’ rights, but not all the participating countries are currently on the same page, as LSIPR reports. 16 June 2015
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Nearly three years after the introduction of the inter partes review, LSIPR explores its impact on the life sciences sector and asks whether it is creating a culture of ‘reverse trolling’. 16 June 2015
Big Pharma
How will the OECD’s Modified Nexus Approach to innovator-friendly tax regimes such as the UK’s patent box affect the life sciences industry? LSIPR investigates. 16 June 2015
Americas
The antibiotics market could lose out for a decade due to inadequate research and development in the area, according to a report published by UK law firm Marks & Clerk today, June 16. 16 June 2015
Americas
US law firm White and Williams has hired George Xixis as a counsel to its Boston office. 12 June 2015