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FTC Focus: What Access To Patent Settlements Would Mean

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The Federal Trade Commission has pursued aggressive and creative expansion of its antitrust enforcement efforts under the Biden administration, and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception. Indeed, in a recent interview,...more

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Initiatives to Increase Communication Between the USPTO and the FDA Concerning Pharmaceutical Patent Applications

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President Biden, in July 2021, issued an Executive Order (“E.O.”) observing that “too often, patent and other laws have been misused to inhibit or delay — for years and even decades — competition from generic drugs and...more

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Don’t Miss USPTO’s Lapsing Collaborative Search Option

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Recently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provided an additional tool for patent applicants to use in pursuit of foreign patent protection. In 2015, the USPTO partnered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office, or...more

Haug Partners LLP

When the “States” Come Marching-In: The Bayh-Dole Act’s Effect on IP Rights of COVID-Related Patents and Knowledge Ecology...

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On August 4, 2020, a bipartisan coalition of over 30 attorneys general led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sent a letter request to United States Health and Human...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2020

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In This Issue - Influencer Marketing: Top Business and Legal Considerations for 2020 - Although influencer marketing is an ever-larger part of marketing budgets, questions have arisen about the longevity of influencers as a...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

MBHB Snippets: A review of developments in Intellectual Property Law - Volume 17, Issue 3

2019 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Key Practice Updates: A Year in Review - 2019 has been an active year for procedural changes in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). These changes include not only the PTAB’s...more

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Five things academic scientists should know when pursuing their first patent – Five-Part Series

Patent law has many surprises in store for academic scientists pursuing a patent for the first time. Many patent attorneys were once researchers just like you—we understand it can be intimidating. This blog series provides...more

Troutman Pepper

Bass Continues Fishing; Pharma Seeks Sanctuary

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It’s time for an update on Kyle Bass’s efforts to rid America of the pharmaceutical patents that support high priced drugs. Between February and September 2015, at least eleven investment funds organized by J. Kyle Bass and...more

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Do-Gooders Won’t Take “No” For An Answer

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About a month ago we posted an article on the dismissal of Consumer Watchdog’s appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit following a loss at the USPTO in an inter partes reexamination. Consumer Watchdog, Inc. had...more

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United States Trade Secrets Law

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The America Invents Act (AIA) changes the traditional calculus in determining whether to seek patenting an invention or to maintain it as a trade secret. This shift in intellectual property protection is the result of two...more

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