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DNA-sequencing company Illumina has convinced a California court to bar Chinese pharma firm BGI Genomics from selling technology that infringes its genome-sequencing patents. 29 March 2022
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Therabody has sued TJ Maxx’s parent company, alongside five “unauthorised” Amazon resellers for patent and trademark infringement, claiming they sell “knockoff” massage gun products. 15 March 2022
Americas
A subsidiary of Tokyo-based FujiFilm has announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ultrasound machine maker Butterfly Network. 10 March 2022
Africa
The global pandemic has increased collaboration and a new wave of disputes is likely. Arbitration is well placed to help, argue Kate Davies McGill, Gaela Gehring Flores and Paul Keller of Allen & Overy 24 February 2022
MedTech
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed two Patent Trial and Appeal Board rulings that a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary’s patent is valid and infringed. 15 February 2022
MedTech
Arthrex says that it did not get the “remedy” ordered by the US Supreme Court in its landmark case against Smith & Nephew. 13 January 2022
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rejected several bids from French pharma giant Sanofi to revive claims in its Lantus SoloStar insulin pen patents. 4 January 2022
MedTech
Medical devices company InfoBionic has argued that it should be awarded nearly $2.9 million in fees for attorneys, expenses and expert witnesses. 23 December 2021
Americas
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Ethicon has obtained a permanent injunction against counterfeiters selling fake versions of Surgicel, an absorbable haemostat used to control bleeding during surgery. 7 December 2021
MedTech
Qiagen will pay Becton, Dickinson $53 million to settle an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit over polymerase chain reaction diagnostics patents. 9 November 2021