MedTech news
Americas
Law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie has hired Elie Gendloff as of counsel in the firm’s IP practice group in Los Angeles. 10 April 2017
Americas
Last year was a historic one for the US Federal Trade Commission, according to its “Annual Highlights” report, issued yesterday. 29 March 2017
Americas
Allergan Pharmaceuticals and genome-editing company Editas Medicine have entered into a strategic research and development agreement over CRISPR technology. 20 March 2017
Americas
IP management company CPA Global has agreed to pay $5.6 million to medical diagnostic company Run Them Sweet as part of a settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit. 15 March 2017
Americas
A physician at Aurora Health Care has filed patent infringement complaints against Boston Scientific, St Jude Medical and Abbott Laboratories. 14 March 2017
Americas
Law firm Perkins Coie has appointed James Hill as a partner in the IP practice in the life sciences industry group. 10 March 2017
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said it won’t review a writ filed by Illumina and its subsidiary Verinata Health in a patent dispute with Ariosa Diagnostics. 10 March 2017
Americas
A jury at the US District Court for the District of Delaware has decided that medical technologies company C R Bard has not infringed a patent owned by W L Gore Associates, a company specialising in products derived from fluoropolymers. 9 March 2017
Europe
The English High Court handed down a split decision on patentability in a dispute between Edwards Lifesciences and Boston Scientific over patents covering transcatheter heart valves. 6 March 2017
Pharma
“The Unified Patent Court without Britain is a far less potent idea,” says Nick McDonald, partner of Potter Clarkson. 28 February 2017