Biotech news
Americas
Sequenom has urged the US Supreme Court to hear its patent dispute with Ariosa Diagnostics. 22 March 2016
Americas
A US court has ruled that two patents covering the Repatha drug, owned by biotechnology company Amgen, are valid. 18 March 2016
Americas
Law firm Perkins Coie has hired Mark Wicker as a partner in the firm’s technology transactions and privacy practice in San Diego. 18 March 2016
Americas
Law firm Proskauer Rose has expanded its life sciences patent practice by hiring Fangli Chen as a partner and Daniel Klein as a senior patent counsel. 16 March 2016
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration has appointed Stephen Ostroff to deputy commissioner for food and veterinary medicine. 10 March 2016
Biotech
The English High Court has allowed Japan-based drug maker Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics to amend some of its arguments in a patent dispute surrounding AbbVie’s arthritis drug Humira. 8 March 2016
Americas
Amgen and Sandoz are set to go head to head in another patent case, this time centring on Amgen’s arthritis treatment drug Enbrel. 3 March 2016
Pharma
The European Commission is considering whether ‘export waivers’ should be introduced in order to partly relax the rules on supplementary protection certificates. Gareth Morgan of Olswang explains more. 1 March 2016
Americas
Californian genetic analysis company Illumina has sued UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies, which develops nanopore sequencing products. 26 February 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Codexis has sued a rival and its founder for allegedly stealing trade secrets and infringing up to ten patents. 24 February 2016