Biotech news
Asia
Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine has agreed an artificial intelligence breast cancer drug discovery partnership worth a potential $200 million with a Chinese pharmaceutical company. 10 October 2019
Americas
Goldfinch Bio, a US company focused on developing treatments for kidney disease, has agreed to license a cannabinoid receptor 1 antibody from Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer Takeda. 4 October 2019
Pharma
Novartis has teamed with Microsoft to launch a new artificial intelligence innovation lab, which it says has the potential to “transform” and “reimagine” medicine. 3 October 2019
Americas
Evolve BioSystems and the University of California have jointly sued Abbott Laboratories for patent infringement over a soon-to-be-launched probiotic product. 3 October 2019
Pharma
LSIPR’s Sarah Morgan investigates the current state of play of M&A in the sector and predicts the next year of activity. 30 September 2019
Biotech
In-house counsel face daily challenges when managing and maintaining their IP portfolios. LSIPR asked two in-house counsel for the biggest challenges they face when managing and maintaining their IP portfolios. Here are the five things we learned. 30 September 2019
Biotech
An intervention by Russia’s IP ombudsman seeks to solve the validity issue over secondary patents, but is it needed, asks Maxim Sobolev of Rouse. 30 September 2019
Biotech
There is no doubting the importance of next year’s CRISPR appeal, but any conclusions about the parties’ prior art have consequences for elsewhere too, say Catherine Coombes and Emma Longland of HGF. 30 September 2019
Biotech
The Actavis v ICOS UK Supreme Court judgment was a bitter pill to swallow, but is it really the end of dosage patents? Richard Wells and Stephanie Pilkington of Potter Clarkson review the situation. 30 September 2019
Americas
Filing a divisional patent application in Brazil needs a keen understanding of the process and flexibility in the system, as Kene Gallois and Luis Felipe Maciel da Silva of Daniel Law explain. 30 September 2019