Earlier this month, in GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed (2-1) upon rehearing its October 2020 decision that a labeling...more
8/26/2021
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On October 17, the National People’s Congress (NPC) formally adopted a revised patent law, which will take effect on June 1, 2021. The new law includes significant changes in the intellectual property legal framework with...more
10/20/2020
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On 11 September 2020, China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA, formerly “China Food and Drug Administration”) published its proposed regulation on patent linkage, “Measures for the Implementation of the Early...more
On 6 July, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) published additional amendments to its draft patent law, which was first released in January 2019. As we reported at that time here, the proposed Chinese Patent Law...more