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Month: August 2013
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By Donald Zuhn — On Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the agency had reached an understanding with the family of Ms. Henrietta Lacks regarding access to genomic data for the HeLa cell line, which was derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Ms. Lacks on February 8, 1951. Ms. Lacks eventually…
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Asserts Affirmative Defenses and Antitrust Counterclaims and Asks for Declaratory Judgment By Kevin E. Noonan — On Monday Ambry filed its Answer to Myriad's complaint for patent infringement, and asserted patent misuse as an affirmative defense. Ambry also asked the District Court for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of all patents Myriad has asserted,…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced that researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) had generated a data set of cancer-specific genetic variations, which the researchers were making freely available to the research community. The data set of coding variants in the NCI-60 panel of cell lines…
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The UK High Court recently gave its judgment in the case of Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd (collectively referred to in the judgement as BMS) v Teva Pharma B.V. and Teva UK Ltd (Teva) (decision). The judgement is interesting as it is one of the few so called "quia timet"…
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. UCB, Inc. et al. v. Sun Pharma Global FZE et al.1:13-cv-05514; filed August 1, 2013 in the Northern District of Illinois • Plaintiffs: UCB, Inc.; UCB Pharma GmbH; Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.; Harris FRC Corp.•…
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Last month, the ABA Journal began work on its 7th annual list of the 100 best legal blogs (or blawgs) and announced that it is seeking the advice of its readers, via the ABAJournal.com website, on which blogs to include on this year's Blawg 100. Last year, Patent Docs was honored to be included among…
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August 5-7, 2013 – Advanced Patent Law Seminar (Chisum Patent Academy) – Seattle, WA August 8, 2013 – Analyzing and Adapting to the Supreme Court's Myriad Ruling (Technology Transfer Tactics) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern) August 8-11, 2013 – 2013 Annual Meeting (American Bar Association) – San Francisco, CA August 21, 2013 – Inducement…
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American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its next Paragraph IV Disputes conference on October 3-4, 2013 in Chicago, IL. The conference will allow attendees to: • Devise strategies relative to the use of new PTO proceedings such as IPR in Hatch-Waxman litigation;• Understand how new 271(e)(1) controversies under Claussen and Momenta may undo Roche…
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IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will be holding the Supreme Court IP Review (SCIPR) conference on September 26, 2013 at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will provide intellectual property practitioners, jurists, legal academics, and law students with a review of IP cases from the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 Term,…
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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be hosting a live onsite seminar entitled "The European Unitary Patent: Strategic Considerations for a New Era" on September 16, 2013 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am (CT) at its Chicago, IL office. Nederlandsch Octrooibureau ("NLO") patent attorneys Paul Clarkson and Caroline Pallard will explain the upcoming changes…
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