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Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration will today announce that it plans to grant a Chinese-owned testing company an exclusive worldwide licence for a US government-owned patent covering a diagnostic test for the rapid detection of COVID-19. 13 November 2020
Pharma
The European Commission has approved a fourth contract with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech, following their revelation that they had developed a vaccine that could potentially prevent more than 90% of people from becoming infected by COVID-19. 12 November 2020
Biotech
Australia has secured 40 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in a deal with US biotechnology company Novavax. 5 November 2020
Biotech
Discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the CRISPR landscape and section 101 are top of mind for Eldora Ellison, director at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox. 28 October 2020
Biotech
Is the grant of a reasonable scope for antibody-related inventions at the European Patent Office a phenomenon of the past? Joachim Wachenfeld and Florian Grasser of Vossius & Partner report. 27 October 2020
Pharma
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche will pay $350 million for the rights to develop and distribute an investigational COVID-19 antiviral outside of the US. 22 October 2020
Biotech
Talks on a landmark proposal to waive IP rights for vaccines and treatments related to COVID-19 have stalled, following the failure of the World Trade Organisation to conclude an agreement. 20 October 2020
Pharma
The English High Court has concluded that Merck Sharp Dohme is not infringing a patent owned by Pfizer through the sale of its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. 20 October 2020
Americas
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has strengthened its life sciences expertise with the addition of a patent litigation team, that includes four litigators from DLA Piper. 19 October 2020
Biotech
A unit belonging to German company Braun has allegedly infringed five patents relating to artificial joints for knee and hip replacements, according to a complaint filed by the Orthopaedic Institute for Children. 13 October 2020