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IP lawyer Andrew Skodyn of Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP agrees it does appear some of
the pharma patent changes that had been talked about are coming to pass.
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pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.
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pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued patents.
As South Africa is currently a non-examining country (there are plans to start examining at least
pharma patents), the number of
pharma patents granted here are higher than in countries having a similar socio - economic background and in which patents are examined.
Not exact matches
Big biotech and
pharma companies are absolutely dependent on being able to successfully innovate by partnering with and acquiring disruptive startups because of the nature of the
patent cliff in pharmaceuticals.
More than 25 % of the major blockbuster drugs of the Top 10
pharmas are coming off
patent in the next three years.
Now, the innovation pipelines are dry, the
pharma companies are peering (or falling) over the
patent cliff.
Concerns over these
patent expiries, coupled with the recession, caused many investors to flee Big
Pharma stocks altogether.
Jazz said in a filing that it did so in response to the overall takeover environment for
pharma companies and in light of a
patent litigation settlement that allows Hikma Pharmaceuticals to sell a generic version of Xyrem with Jazz receiving royalty payments on those sales.
After internally dividing its slower - growth «established
pharma» business from its more innovative
patented drugs in 2014, Pfizer recently told analysts that it will decide by the end of 2016 whether to truly split itself up.
ICCR encourages
pharma companies to share
patents for their life - saving HIV drug formulations through the Medicines
Patent Pool as a way to make them more affordable and available where they are needed most.
No. 3: The year of big
pharma In the past five years, big cap pharmaceutical stocks have lagged biotech stocks because they've struggled to fill revenue gaps created by the
patent cliff.
What I am saying is we need to reevaluate the system that allows Big
Pharma to keep reapplying for
patent extensions for dubious claims on additional properties of their products, resulting in higher costs.
As
patents on existing drugs run out, Big
Pharma is turning its attention (back) to the natural world, writes Rob Verkerk
IN TODAY»S biotech industry, start - up companies sprout from every university biology department, looking to hook up with big
pharma or agrochemical firms to take their
patented, DNA - based ingenuity lucratively to market.
As the pharmaceutical industry's blockbuster drugs fall off the
patent cliff, with precious few drugs in the pipeline to replace them, there are signs that big
pharma could turn more of its attention to biologically derived medicines.
And a draft executive order on drug pricing, which has not been finalized, includes many policies on
pharma's wish list, including extending
patents for drugs sold overseas.
There is a need to interact with biotech and
pharma, a need to understand intellectual property and
patenting — all of this is really now part of the academic career,» says Alving, who adds «many individuals will have careers in academia, but they may have also spent some time in industry.
This program has delivered key outcomes including 15
patents and the licensing of seven discoveries to
Pharma and Biotech.
U-M holds a
patent on MM - 401 and has licensed it to Ascentage
Pharma, a China - based company co-founded by Wang in which the university holds equity.
Perhaps for reasons of self - preservation, he also fails to disclose his close ties to Big
Pharma, including his
patent on the rotavirus vaccine he co-invented.
Pharma scientiests research amazonian plants and create a synthetic version for pharmaceutical drugs that they can
patent and profit from.
It was true that the studies proving the case for
patent restoration — for laws that would give
pharma additional compensatory
patent time — were weak and inconclusive, but the essence of the industry argument struck a nerve with Engman: here again was a case of overregulation hurting the economy of the nation and depriving the consumer of an improved product.
Brian Feroldi:
Patent expirations on key drugs have wreaked havoc on many
pharma companies» financial statements over the past few years, but few companies have been hit as hard as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE).
Finally, a review of this year's Canadian biotech and
pharma licensing trends shows that even facing a
patent cliff,
pharmas (as licensing payers) still wield a fair amount of bargaining power.
Indeed, one needs to appreciate the very peculiar features prevailing in the
pharma sector and the potential conflict between competition law and IPRs, which results from the fact that - as a rule - pharmaceutical firms enjoy
patent protection.
The firm was also shortlisted — both nationally and in the northeast — as one of the
Patent Contentious Firms of the Year, as well as among the Copyright Northeast Firms of the Year, and the
Pharma IP Litigation Firms of the Year.
There are of course some high profile
patent lawsuits in this country, for instance in the
pharma field.
Our team led advised joint administrators of Redx
Pharma plc on the disposal of assets, including
patents in the Redx BTK program, for the sum of US$ 40 million.
The recent introduction of generic Lipitor in Canada is one example of the challenges facing
pharma companies as current blockbusters come off
patent and face generic competition.
Trial counsel for BioChem
Pharma in
patent infringement litigation involving Epivir ® brand HIV therapy.
This time, however, the source familiar with the
patent coalition said that the
pharma industry may stay out of the legislative debate — so long as the drug companies feel comfortable the measures are aimed at
patent trolls and not pills.
This has been a sticking point for reform because the justification for
patents in
pharma, where innovation is slow and incredibly expensive, is much different than in tech where innovations are often obsolete in a year or two.
Some are pointing to the fact that David Kappos, the previous director of the
Patent Office, was from the tech industry, so the next one has to come from
pharma or biotech.
While 2012 has seen far fewer
pharma layoffs than in recent years, according to an article for Townhall.com, expiring
patents and pricing pressures have many
pharma companies concerned.
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