Pharma news
Americas
American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. has secured a victory against its rival Pfizer in an inter partes review of a patent concerning Prevnar 13, the biggest-selling vaccine in the world. 14 March 2019
Americas
The Trump administration has named Ned Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, as the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) acting commissioner. 13 March 2019
Pharma
India’s government has cut the royalties its local seed companies and farmers pay to Monsanto by almost 50%. 13 March 2019
Americas
Pharmaceutical distributor CanaRx Services has hit back at criticism from the US Food and Drug Administration over the Canadian company’s alleged supply of unapproved and misbranded drugs. 11 March 2019
Pharma
King’s College London has entered a licensing and collaboration agreement with US pharmaceutical company Merck & Co to develop new chronic pain medications. 11 March 2019
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, March 6, refused to rehear a decision which found Allergan and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s patents for dry-eye treatment Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion) are invalid. 7 March 2019
Americas
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, resigned from his post yesterday, March 5, with plans to step down in the next month. 6 March 2019
Americas
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think tank has called on the US National Institutions of Health to maintain IP protection amid calls to “break” patents in order to lower drug prices. 5 March 2019
Pharma
An opinion on whether a supplementary protection certificate can be granted to an owner of a drug patent when the marketing authorisation is held by a third party is overdue, lawyers told LSIPR. 5 March 2019
Pharma
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that pharmaceutical companies Auden Mckenzie and Waymade engaged in anti-competitive behaviour relating to hydrocortisone tablets. 4 March 2019