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Month: April 2016
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April 20, 2016 – "Patents After the AIA: Evolving Law and Practice – Part 2" (American Intellectual Property Law Association) – 12:30 to 2:00 pm (Eastern) April 21, 2016 – 32nd Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations) – New York, NY April 21, 2016 - 26th Annual…
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The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) will be holding its twenty-six annual Trade Secrets Seminar from 1:00 to 4:00 pm (Central) on April 21, 2016 at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. The Seminar will offer a discussion on data privacy and trade secret protection by Jason Logue, Associate General Counsel…
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By Andrew Williams — As we reported last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Celltrion's application to market Inflectra, a biosimilar to Janssen Biotech Inc.'s REMICADE (infliximab) anti-TNF-α antibody. On Tuesday, April 12, counsel for Janssen submitted a letter to Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a storied institution in molecular biology, being the site of annual meetings related to this view of life since Schrodinger proposed to use quantitative methods to examine biology in the wake of the despair in physics occasioned by the use of nuclear weapons to…
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U.S. District Court Disagrees with PTAB By Joseph Herndon — On March 25, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada issued an Order in a case captioned Global Cash Access, Inc. v. NRT Technology Corp., and NRT Technologies, Inc., in which the District Court found the claims to be directed to an…
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By Donald Zuhn — On March 28, 2016, a dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to "strongly encourage the NIH to use its [march-in] authority to…
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Unimed Pharmaceuticals, LLC et al. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC1:15-cv-00964; filed October 22, 2016 in the District Court of Delaware • Plaintiffs: Unimed Pharmaceuticals, LLC; Besins Healthcare Inc.; Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL• Defendant: Amneal Pharmaceuticals,…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit affirmed the latest invalidation of genetic diagnostic claims last week, in Genetic Technologies Ltd. v. Merial L.L.C. While consistent with (and expressly relying upon) recent Federal Circuit precedent on this question, this case presents additional aspects deleterious to genetic diagnostic method patent holders. The patent at issue,…
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April 12, 2016 – "A Federal Trade Secrets Act? The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CDT) April 13, 2016 – "Protecting Your IP Overseas: WIPO Services and Initiatives" (World Intellectual Property Organization, American Intellectual Property Law Association, and U.S. Patent and Trademark…
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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "The PTAB Front and Center at the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court: The First Year of Appellate Review" on May 18, 2016 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CDT). In this presentation, Patent Docs author and MBHB attorney Andrew Williams, Ph.D.…
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