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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a district court’s decision to invalidate a patent covering arthritis treatment Humira, after a challenge by biopharmaceutical company AbbVie. 9 April 2015
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A US hedge fund manager and a company he created has taken aim at Jazz Pharmaceuticals in an inter partes review patent challenge, marking the third time he has challenged a company’s patents. 9 April 2015
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Merck Sharp & Dohme has sued Apotex at the US District Court for the District of New Jersey for allegedly infringing a patent covering hay fever nasal spray Nasonex. 8 April 2015
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US anti-cancer company Juno Therapeutics and a children’s hospital have settled their patent licensing suit with pharmaceutical business Novartis and the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 7 April 2015
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Law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has hired life sciences attorneys Brian Slater and Gregory Sephton. 7 April 2015
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Law firm Schiff Hardin has added Cindy Ahn as counsel in its intellectual property practice group. 2 April 2015
Americas
Forest Labs, a subsidiary of Actavis, has sued InvaGen for allegedly infringing four patents covering depression drug Viibryd, in what is the fifth related lawsuit. 1 April 2015
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A US appeals court has overturned a district court's decision to deny Apotex's request for a declaratory judgment that its proposed generic blood pressure drug would not infringe a patent owned by pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo. 1 April 2015
Asia
The Indian government is “seriously considering” extending the term of data exclusivity protection for agrochemical inventions from three to five years, it has been claimed. 1 April 2015
Americas
Purdue Pharma has sued Collegium Pharmaceutical for allegedly infringing four of its patents relating to extended release painkiller OxyContin. 1 April 2015