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Fish & Richardson

Preparing Your Company for Hatch-Waxman

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The Hatch-Waxman Act regulates the relationship between branded and generic drugmakers and attempts to strike a balance between two competing policy interests — encouraging pioneering drug development and facilitating market...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Balancing AI-Powered Drug Discovery’s Risk and Reward

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AI is shaving years off the drug-discovery process. But it’s not just leaving other research modalities in the dust—the law itself is struggling to keep up, especially when it comes to patenting AI-aided drug discovery....more

Baker Donelson

Generative Artificial Intelligence Asks Questions of Innovation in Patent Law

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Introduction - Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has dominated headlines for nearly all of 2023 and demonstrated that it has the potential to disrupt the economic landscape by displacing jobs and creating remarkable...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Dispute over COVID Vaccine Shows Importance of Inventorship

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Moderna has been engaged in a patent dispute with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over whether three NIH scientists should be named as inventors for discovering the genetic sequence that’s central to the vaccine. ...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence: USPTO Urges Federal Circuit to Affirm Decision That AI Cannot Qualify as an “Inventor”

In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor”

Striking a blow to patent applicants seeking to assert inventorship by artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled on September 3, 2021 that an AI machine cannot...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Drug Patent Invalid Due to Poor Quality Translation

In IBSA Institut Biochimique v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. a valuable lesson was learned about relying on a translation of a non-English patent application. The IBSA Institut Biochimique (IBSAIB) hired an Italian patent...more

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