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Federal Circuit Certifies AbbVie’s Constitutional Challenge in Consolidated Adalimumab IPR Appeals to U.S. Attorney General

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As we previously reported, currently pending before the Federal Circuit are consolidated appeals from five final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings finding...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Signals Shift in Antitrust/IP Focus

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• Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Makan Delrahim, the new head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), recently announced a shift from the prior Administration’s focus on the dangers of patent “hold-up”...more

Smart & Biggar

Federal Court finds PMPRB unreasonable in finding Galderma patent 'pertains to' medicine in DIFFERIN

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In a November 9, 2017 decision, Justice Phelan of the Federal Court found that the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Panel (Board) was unreasonable in its assessment that a patent ‘pertained’ to Galderma Canada’s DIFFERIN...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Second Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction in People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC

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We’ve previously covered the New York State Attorney General’s (“NYS AG”) lawsuit against Actavis PLC and Forest Laboratories seeking to prevent them from discontinuing sales of the Forest drug Namenda IR, which is used to...more

Gray Reed

Does there need to be patent reform?

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Regular readers know I am a fan of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The show has done multiple segments relevant to our topics of discussion. They recently did a segment on patent reform....more

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AGs To The Front Lines: State Attorneys General Begin Wielding Unfair Competition Laws Against Foreign IP Thieves

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Companies victimized by intellectual property theft may have a new weapon: asking state attorneys general for civil prosecution under unfair competition laws. ...more

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