Biotech news
Pharma
German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has entered into a second licence and collaboration agreement with Danish biotech company Gubra for the development of an obesity treatment. 30 May 2019
Americas
US biotechnology company Celgene has taken legal action against the registrant of a domain name which allegedly infringes Celgene’s trademarks. 30 May 2019
Biotech
A subsidiary of China-based genome sequencing company BGI has filed a patent infringement suit against a US competitor. 29 May 2019
Biotech
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new CRISPR/Cas9 patent to the University of California, the University of Vienna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier. 28 May 2019
Americas
Verily, which is a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, yesterday announced that it had partnered with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, and Sanofi in efforts to develop digitally-innovative clinical research programmes. 22 May 2019
Biotech
Precision medicine is an evolving field, which takes individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle into account when tackling disease treatment and prevention. LSIPR reports. 21 May 2019
Pharma
US-based biopharmaceutical company Parvus Therapeutics has entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Genentech, a subsidiary of Roche. 21 May 2019
Americas
3D-printed organs and tissues are now a reality, but questions remain over their patentability, says Gabriel Di Blasi of Di Blasi, Parente & Associados. 20 May 2019
Americas
Brazil’s patent law does not allow methods of treatment to be patented, but there are other means of getting protection, according to Kene Gallois and Samantha Salim of Daniel Law. 20 May 2019
Asia
An upcoming case on the patent eligibility of genetically modified seed in India will have far-reaching ramifications, as Archana Shankar and Gitika Suri of Anand & Anand explain. 20 May 2019