This latest edition features an interview with retiring longtime Wilson Sonsini IP partner Vern Norviel and articles on MedTech and pharma trends for 2025, the eligibility of life sciences companies for qualified small...more
This issue features articles on the firm’s Business Advisory Practice supporting Nervosave Therapeutics’ U.S. expansion; the USPTO’s forthcoming guidance on AI innovation protection; option pool sizes for life sciences...more
On November 7, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent notice letters1 to 10 brand drug manufacturers of drug-device combination products, including drugs delivered by asthma inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, and...more
On February 24, 2023, the Federal Circuit held that Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Jazz) must delist U.S. Patent No. 8,731,963 (the ’963 Patent) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) “Orange Book” because the...more
Spurred by President Biden's call for action to increase drug competition and a 2021 letter addressed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by Senators Leahy and Tillis requesting the USPTO "to take action to...more
Wilson Sonsini is pleased to present the latest edition of The Life Sciences Report. This issue features an interview with Foresight Diagnostics co-founder and CEO Jake Chabon conducted by Matthew Meyer, the firm’s Chief...more
Starting in July of this year, China initiated a patent registration platform that bears some similarity to the generic drug framework under the Hatch-Waxman Act in the U.S. The purpose of this alert is to describe this new...more