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Americas
In March, Merck unsuccessfully tried to invalidate a patent owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb covering metastatic skin cancer treatment. Ernest Linek of Banner & Witcoff reviews the arguments and the court’s ruling. 7 April 2016
Biotechnology
Law firm Boult Wade Tennant has hired Jason Rutt as an attorney in the firm’s biotechnology and life sciences group in London. 7 April 2016
Americas
Law firm DLA Piper has hired James Czaban as a partner in the firm’s government affairs practice and chair of the firm’s US Food and Drug Administration group in Washington, DC. 7 April 2016
Asia
MRC Technology and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences have agreed a partnership that will help develop new therapeutic antibodies. 6 April 2016
Americas
A US man who sold counterfeit erectile dysfunction medications including Viagra online has been jailed for a year and a day. 6 April 2016
Americas
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a biosimilar version of Janssen Biotech’s drug Remicade. 6 April 2016
Americas
Pharmaceutical company Millennium Pharmaceuticals has sued Actavis, accusing it of infringing a patent covering a drug used to treat myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma. 5 April 2016
Asia
Law firm Foley & Lardner has expanded its intellectual property department and its chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical practice by hiring Philippe Riesen as a partner. 5 April 2016
Americas
The Federal Trade Commission has sued Endo Pharmaceuticals for allegedly violating competition laws by agreeing to so-called pay-for-delay settlements surrounding the launch of generic versions of two drugs. 4 April 2016
Africa
Pharmaceutical company GSK has adopted a new approach to patents and intellectual property to widen access to medicines in the world’s poorest countries. 1 April 2016