Biotech news
Americas
LSIPR and law firm HGF held a webinar yesterday focusing on CRISPR and how to navigate the IP landscape. 26 April 2017
Americas
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from Sandoz and Amgen tomorrow, when the battle over a biosimilar of Amgen’s Neupogen will resume. 25 April 2017
Americas
A disagreement over how pharma patents in Brazil are examined seems to have come to an end, as Breno Souza, Luisa Rezende and Silvia Costa of Clarke Modet & Co Brazil report. 25 April 2017
Americas
Harvard Stem Cells Institute, a network of stem cell scientists, has entered into a collaboration agreement with stem cells manufacturer Cellular Dynamics International. 20 April 2017
Americas
US-based law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn has hired Simeon Papacostas as a partner in the firm’s IP department. 20 April 2017
Americas
The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Vienna have appealed against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in the dispute over CRISPR technology. 18 April 2017
Pharma
The UK government has revealed plans to provide £29 million ($36 million) of funding to the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh. 12 April 2017
Americas
The 2017 “Drugs to Watch” report predicts that eight new drugs will enter the market this year and each achieve $1 billion in annual sales by 2021. 12 April 2017
Americas
Law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie has hired Elie Gendloff as of counsel in the firm’s IP practice group in Los Angeles. 10 April 2017
Americas
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Commission have cleared the merger of generic pesticide producer China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and crop business Syngenta. 6 April 2017