• Medical Patent Law Weekly

    Medical Patent Law Weekly (12/27/2017). Medical Patent Law Weekly covers new and ongoing law suits pertaining to new drugs, genetic discoveries, and medical materials and devices for pharma and biotech executives and legal counsels, including patent and licensing disputes, contract negotiations …

     
  • My Health, Inc. v. ALR Technologies, Inc. (ED Tex. 2017)

    It is a reality not needing emphasis or reiteration that the extent of subject matter eligibility in patent law has been in turmoil following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Bilski v. Kappos, Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs, AMP v. Myriad Genetics, and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l.... Continue reading

     
  • European patent law Leads. European patent law email lists

    Russian, Patent Prosecution, Patent Litigation, Patents, Litigation, Invention, IP due diligence, Life Sciences, Lifesciences, Biotechnology, Due Diligence, Registered Patent Attorney, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Trade Secrets, Prior Art Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology …

     
  • Issue Ten: PTAB Trial Tracker

    The Board further found that allowing a patent owner to selectively assert its 11th Amendment immunity to prevent a petitioner from obtaining the benefits of an IPR … The SOP indicates that a change in the law or new or revised claim construction not previously considered may lead to additional... Continue reading

     
  • Feroz Ali & Sudarsan Rajagopal: How India rejects bad patents

    In 2005, India made some remarkable amendments to the Indian Patents Act of 1970, to keep medicines affordable in the country. Since then we have faced a significant blowback not just from the global pharmaceutical industry but also from developed world including from the US and the European …

     
  • Qualcomm Elevates EVP Cristiano R. Amon To President

    While Mr. Amon spent 22 years at Qualcomm holding a broad range of positions, it remains to be seen how effectively he’ll replace the departing President whose vast patent law experience allowed him to personally oversee the company’s many legal disputes across the world, including the high-profile …

     
  • Aristocrat takes legal action as former erotic film star promotes champagne brand founded by his …

    Aristocrat takes legal action as former erotic film star promotes champagne brand founded by his forefathers … a local newspaper in the Champagne region, that the objection to the use of Ms Morgane’s name in conjunction with that of the de Cazanove family was based on intellectual property law.

     
  • Lessons in Trademarking Trade Dress: Apple vs. Samsung

    The long-running legal battle between Samsung and Apple over the shape of their respective smart phones provides some interesting lessons … Apple sought and obtained several design patents including a patent covering a black rectangular front face with rounded corners, a patent covering a …

     
  • 2018 promises to be rocky time in IP world

    If you don’t have any international protection issues on your 2018 to-do list, you aren’t alone. This past year has seen tremendous upheavals in domestic intellectual property law.From the elimination of disparaging (and most likely scandalous) mark registration refusals (Tam) to the rewrite of the rules …

     
  • Future for Sandoz’s Generic Glaucoma Drug May Be Less Cloudy

    A veteran reporter, Elfin has been covering the hottest legal and regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical/medical device industries since 1999, with a particular focus on Hatch-Waxman Act patent litigation and antitrust and constitutional law issues affecting the drug and device industries. VIEW FULL …