Sector: Life Sciences

It is a truism of US politics that one of the hardest things in Washington DC is getting a bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote. In that respect patent reform took a major step forward yesterday as the PATENT Act, the bill introduced last…

05 June 2015

Orin Herskowitz is head of technology transfer at Columbia University, one of the most respected and successful university licensing operations in the United States. His role not only means that he is plugged into the steady stream of new technology…

25 May 2015

Merck has become the latest foreign pharmaceutical innovator to notch a patent win in an Indian court. Last Friday, the country’s Supreme Court enjoined Glenmark Generics from selling new low-cost versions of diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet …

19 May 2015

Since the America Invents Act overhauled the re-examination process, we have written regularly about the impact that the new procedures, and inter partes reviews in particular, have had on the patent market. Essentially, they have become a new tool…

18 May 2015

The following is a brief extract from a letter which a national legislator sent to a member of the cabinet earlier this week:“I ask you to utilise federal law… to break the patents on these drugs to authorise third parties to manufacture or…

15 May 2015

One of the standout comments from last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the PATENT Act came from Senator Durbin. He remarked that the five witnesses called appeared divided between “those who love” the bill and “those who really love” it…

12 May 2015

For over an hour yesterday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the recently introduced PATENT Act unfolded, it seemed like we were in patent fantasyland. Except for some predictable comments from the deputy general counsel of pharma giant…

08 May 2015

On the sidelines of the INTA annual meeting in San Diego, IAM attended a seminar on the last year’s changes to trademark law in China. There was a nice bonus at the end, though, in the form of a discussion of patent litigation trends from Wan Hui Da…

08 May 2015

The latest attempts to introduce new legislative patent reform in the US took its most significant step yesterday when the Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship (PATENT) Act was introduced in the Senate. With the backing of Senate…

30 April 2015

Indian corporate leaders view a strong and sustainable IP system as key to furthering their country’s economic development and attracting continued foreign investment, a recent study suggests. A lack of confidence that this is currently the case –…

28 April 2015