Trade secrets: an alternative for life sciences IP?

Over the past decade, three high-profile US Supreme Court decisions—known by their shorthand names as Alice, Mayo, and Myriad—have generated significant uncertainty over what is and isn’t patentable.

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Children’s hospital researcher admits selling trade secrets to China

3 August 2020 A former researcher at the research institute of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets to sell in China.

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Former Genentech employee cuts plea deal with FBI in trade secrets case

16 January 2020 A former Genentech employee has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge after offering "superseding information" to the FBI as part of an ongoing trade secrets investigation.

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Allergan says rivals using trade secrets disclosed by USITC order

13 August 2019 Allergan has filed a motion asking for its “trade secrets” to be removed from evidence in a dispute over its wrinkle treatment, Botox.