Edgar
says pharmaceutical patents were more likely to run into problems with the promise doctrine than in the software and electronic hardware industries where he does most of his patent work.
Not exact matches
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.
An Indian generic drug company on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that revived a
patent infringement case against Google LLC,
saying the ruling could spur «vexatious lawsuits» by makers of brand - name
pharmaceutical products.
Analysts
say that Trump might be interested in any number of proposals, like forcing Japan to import more US cars or agreements on
patent laws that benefit US
pharmaceutical companies.
The jury still must consider what damages to award to Merck and its co-owner of the
patents, Ionis
Pharmaceuticals Inc., for past sales, Kenilworth, N.J. - based Merck
said in a statement.
Considerations about
patenting and intellectual property exist in industry, although the same is true for academia these days,
says Alan Goldhammer, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), an organization that represents the country's leading
pharmaceutical research and biotech companies.
«
Patents are essential to development of
pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and processes,» he
says, reflecting the general opinion of the biotech industry.
Gould
says he has found his broad science background beneficial to his
patent work with the
pharmaceutical, food science, and biotechnology industries.
Choosing London to host the court specializing in life sciences
patents plays to Britain's strength in
pharmaceutical research,
says Richard Jennings, deputy director of Cambridge Enterprise, a company that helps commercialize inventions at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (U.K.).
Varying strengths of risperidone tablets, manufactured by TEVA
Pharmaceuticals USA, have been approved, although the labeling of the generic risperidone might differ from that of Risperdal because some uses of the drug are protected by
patents and exclusivity, the agency
said.
By raising the bar for invalidating
pharmaceutical patents, Edgar
says the decision could cause a spike in the price of drugs in Canada.
But what they all share in common is a knowledge of and profound interest in the same legal subject area —
pharmaceutical class actions,
say, or business process
patents, or asset securitization, or child custody proceedings in Oregon, or small - claims court cases in Nova Scotia, or wealth management in New South Wales, or any of the law's thousands upon thousands of sub-specialties.
«In the
pharmaceutical business, the last couple of years in a
patent life are usually the most valuable because it takes so long to get through the regulatory system and get approval by Health Canada, get on the market and get awareness amongst physicians,» he
says.
They
say it will «open the flood gates to
pharmaceutical companies» law suits, lengthen
patent lengths and delay generics coming to market.
For one thing, software often does not require the kind of investment associated with other types of
patents, such as with
pharmaceuticals,
said Julie Samuels, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier...