MedTech news
Pharma
UK life sciences organisations are still uncertain about the implications of Britain’s departure from the EU, despite welcoming the announcement that the UK will ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. 30 November 2016
Americas
Nevro, a US-based medical device company, filed a complaint against Boston Scientific yesterday in a US district court for allegedly infringing patents covering Nevro’s spinal cord stimulation therapy. 29 November 2016
Americas
A California district court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Scripps Research Institute, a US non-profit medical research facility, against biotechnology company Illumina for alleged patent infringement. 24 November 2016
Americas
California’s biopharmaceutical and medical device employment rate grew by 7% between 2011 and 2015, a recent report by the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) and PwC US has revealed. 23 November 2016
Americas
Thermo Fisher Scientific sued US-based instrumentation company DeNovix yesterday for allegedly infringing two patents covering Thermo Fisher’s NanoDrop micro-volume spectrophotometers. 22 November 2016
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday remanded a case concerning surgical instruments back to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 16 November 2016
Americas
A jury has decided that UK-based medical device company Medtronic must pay $20.3 million in damages to a doctor for patent infringement. 15 November 2016
Americas
Allergan has filed a complaint against pharmaceutical wholesaler Amazon Medica in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division for alleged trademark infringement. 14 November 2016
Americas
US-based law firm Merchant & Gould has hired a new partner to its Silicon Valley and Minneapolis offices. 14 November 2016
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a mixed ruling on a case yesterday between medical device company NuVasive and the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 10 November 2016