Pharma news
Pharma
Clifford Chance has hired Stephen Reese as a partner in the firm’s London office. 28 September 2016
Americas
Drugs company AstraZeneca has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Par Pharmaceutical. 27 September 2016
Pharma
UK-based law firm Potter Clarkson has expanded its intellectual property practice by hiring Nick McDonald and Richard Roberts as a partners and Oliver Laing as a senior associate. 27 September 2016
Americas
Healthcare company Fresenius Kabi has won a preliminary injunction in a patent infringement lawsuit against a rival company. 27 September 2016
Americas
Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical has targeted three companies in a patent infringement lawsuit. 22 September 2016
Americas
Sanofi has filed a complaint against Merck for allegedly infringing ten of its patents centring on the diabetes drugs Lantus and Lantus SoloSTAR. 21 September 2016
Pharma
Sweden-based pharmaceutical research company BioInvent International has been granted additional patent protection for its BI-505 immune oncology programme for myeloma. 19 September 2016
Americas
A patent counsel at Eli Lilly has blasted the US Supreme Court for being lazy in its approach to assessing the patentability of gene-based sequencing. 19 September 2016
Pharma
Brexit does not mean Brexit—it means “total chaos”, said one IP lawyer speaking at the 2016 AIPPI World Congress in Milan today. 19 September 2016
Pharma
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has welcomed the Department of Health’s new £816 million investment in health research, stating that it is “a signal of the government’s commitment to invest in innovation”. 16 September 2016