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US law firm Taylor English has added Kelly Mullally to its intellectual property practice in Atlanta. 5 June 2015
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California-based pharmaceutical company Prometheus Laboratories has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reinstate a patent covering its irritable bowel syndrome drug Lotronex. 4 June 2015
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Robert Licht, former senior vice president of pharmaceutical company Biogen, has joined law firm Choate Hall & Stewart as a partner in the firm’s life sciences group. 4 June 2015
Asia
The Indian Patent Office has reportedly rejected an application covering US company Abraxis BioScience’s cancer drug Abraxane. 3 June 2015
Americas
Novartis has sued Apotex at the US District Court for the District of New Jersey to protect its drug Zometa from generic competition. 2 June 2015
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Law firm Mayer Brown has hired Mark Mansour as partner in its Washington, DC office. 2 June 2015
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The English Court of Appeal has said pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert has a viable argument that Actavis indirectly infringed a second medical use patent covering Warner’s drug Lyrica. 1 June 2015
Americas
A US appeals court has ruled that Actavis’s attempt to force Alzheimer’s patients to switch from one medication to another before generic companies entered the market was anti-competitive. 1 June 2015
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Israel-based pharmaceutical company Teva will have to fork out $1.2 billion after a long-running dispute with the US Federal Trade Commission over a controversial ‘pay-for-delay’ case was settled. 29 May 2015
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Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Andres Liivak to its New York office. 28 May 2015