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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month seized and shut down 1,677 illegal pharmacy websites selling $41,104,386 worth of fake medicines. 9 July 2013
Asia
Novartis has signed a development and licensing agreement with Indian biopharmaceutical company Biological E Limited (BioE) to deliver two vaccines that protect against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. 8 July 2013
Europe
The General Court of the European Union has annulled the European Commission’s decision to refuse marketing authorisation for orphan drug Orphacol. 5 July 2013
Americas
Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB SA has sued drug-maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to stop it manufacturing a generic version of epilepsy drug Vimpat. 3 July 2013
Americas
Pharmaceutical company AbbVie has won a patent case against UK research body The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Trust relating to the arthritis medication Humira. 2 July 2013
Europe
The law of patents and SPCs has yet to be tested in the context of medicines which can be used to treat specific groups of patients, as Paul England explains. 28 June 2013
Biotechnology
The European Patent Office grants approximately 6,000 biotechnology patents per year. LSIPR spoke to Victor Kaas, director of biotechnology at the office, about how it faces the unique challenges of the industry. 28 June 2013
Americas
The US Supreme Court in a landmark decision held that a DNA molecule is potentially eligible for patenting in the US if its sequence does not occur in nature, but is not patent-eligible if its sequence is identical to a
naturally occurring DNA sequence. 28 June 2013
Americas
As support for the study of rare diseases picks up, how does a good IP strategy bring orphan drugs to market? LSIPR spoke to aTyr Pharma’s chief executive John Mendlein to find out. 28 June 2013
Asia
Pharmaceutical company Merck has secured a preliminary injunction against Indian drug company Aprica after it tried to market generic versions of the branded diabetes drug Januvia. 25 June 2013