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Americas
US officials have accepted an application by Novartis to market a biosimilar of Amgen’s Neupogen (filgrastim) drug, a move thought to be the first of its kind. 29 July 2014
Europe
Justice Arnold of the England and Wales High Court has decided to reverse a previous decision and grant Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia its application to stay Actavis’s patent revocation action against it. 28 July 2014
Biotechnology
German medical device company Occlutech has successfully defeated US-based AGA Medical Corporation after the English High Court declared a patent AGA was trying to assert invalid. 25 July 2014
Americas
Law firm Dechert LLP has bolstered its life sciences team with the hire of Scott Warren as a partner in its IP practice in New York. 25 July 2014
Americas
A 17 percent fall in Eli Lilly’s second-quarter revenue to $4.94 billion, reported today (July 24), was driven by the expiry of US patents covering antidepressant Cymbalta (duloxetine hydrochloride) and osteoporosis drug Evista (raloxifene hydrochloride), the company said. 24 July 2014
Americas
Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen and Germany-based pharmaceutical company Grünenthal have sued Watson Laboratories for infringing patents related to painkiller Nucynta (tapentadol hydrochloride). 24 July 2014
Big Pharma
The English High Court has dismissed an application by Eli Lilly to stop Human Genome Sciences from getting an SPC based on a marketing authorisation Lilly may receive for a new drug. 23 July 2014
Americas
Steptoe & Johnson LLP has added to its IP team with the appointment of patent litigator John Molenda. 22 July 2014
Americas
The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has granted Mylan its motion for a permanent injunction against GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK’s) Paroxetine CR. 22 July 2014
Biotechnology
The Attorney General for the Court of Justice of the European Union has issued an opinion on the meaning of the term ‘human embryos’ that could "significantly restrict" the scope of the Brüstle decision of 2011. 21 July 2014