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Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

[Webinar] mRNA Patent Wars Update: Litigations Expand and Key Rulings Expected in 2025 - May 14th, 2:00 pm ET

Partner Dan Shores will present a webinar titled "mRNA Patent Wars Update: Litigations Expand and Key Rulings Expected in 2025" for Medmarc, the leading expert in the products liability risks facing medical technology and...more

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GlaxoSmithKline and Northwestern Sue Moderna for Patent Infringement in Trio of Lawsuits

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Last week, GlaxoSmithKline and Northwestern University filed separate lawsuits against Moderna, accusing its mRNA-based vaccines of patent infringement....more

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Now Available! Announcing the Vaccine Patent Litigation and Vaccine Patent PTAB Trackers

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As Big Molecule Watch continues to push past the bounds of biosimilars and into biologics, we are proud to announce the publication of two additional trackers concerning vaccines: the Vaccine Patent Litigation tracker and the...more

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GSK Sues Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn & BioNTech for Infringing mRNA Vaccine Patents

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​​​​​​​Late last week, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and GlaxoSmithKline LLC filed suit in the District of Delaware alleging that Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn, BioNtech SE, BioNtech Manufacturing GMBH, and BioNTech US, Inc....more

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Biosimilar Deals Updates: Biocon, AstraZeneca

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As an update to our previous report, Biocon Biologics Ltd. (a subsidiary of Biocon Ltd.) announced the successful completion of the transition of the acquired biosimilars business in approximately 120 countries, a year ahead...more

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Acuitas Files Suit Against CureVac Alleging Incorrect Inventorship on COVID MRNA-LNP Vaccine Patent Family

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​​​​​​​Acuitas Therapeutics Inc. (“Acuitas”) filed a complaint on November 13 against CureVac in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging incorrect inventorship of four U.S. Patents related to...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

"Zero Draft" of WHO CA+ Released

On February 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a "zero draft" of a WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (or "WHO CA+") for the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

USTR Announces Support for Extending TRIPS Waiver Expansion Discussions and Launches USITC Investigation

Key Points - On December 6, days before a deadline for WTO members to decide whether to expand the TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines to cover COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics as well, the Office of the USTR...more

K&L Gates LLP

No (More) Bites at the mRNA Apple: Pfizer and BioNTech Seek Declaratory Judgment of Noninfringement Relating to Their COVID-19...

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On 25 July 2022, BioNTech SE and BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH (collectively, BioNTech) and Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) (collectively, Plaintiffs) filed suit1 in the District of Massachusetts against CureVac AG (CureVac or Defendant)....more

A&O Shearman

Potential compromise on COVID-19 IPR waiver: deadlock resolved?

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Last month, a leaked document regarding the TRIPS Waiver revealed a breakthrough between the EU, South Africa, India and the United States. After 18 months of negotiations, the four parties now have reached a high-level...more

Kilpatrick

WTO’s COVID-19 Waiver Negotiations

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We first posted about a potential waiver of patent rights related to COVID-19 medical tools on May 6, 2021 (Patents on COVID-19 Vaccines Feel free to infringe (kilpatricktownsend.com)). A recent version of the waiver released...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Proposed WTO IP Waiver: Just What Good Can It Do? -- An Analysis

As posted Monday, BIO (the Biotechnology Innovation Organization) provided a link to the supposed compromise agreement reached recently to permit WTO member states to waive patent protection for "subject matter required for...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

mRNA Patent and Competitive Landscape: 2021 Year in Review and 2022 Outlook

In April of 2021, we provided a three-part series relating to the IP and Competitive Landscape for the mRNA market. In this post we provide a 2021 year in review update on mRNA pioneers and key players and offer additional...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] Onshoring Drug Manufacturing and TRIPS Waiver Part II

In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome Akin Gump public law and policy partner Clete Willems and Centrient...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

NGE On Demand: COVID-19 and IP Waiver for Patent Protection with Kevin O'Connor and Olivia Luk Bedi

Recently, the U.S.’s changed position on IP Waiver for patent protection of the COVID-19 vaccines and technology grabbed the headlines. It was an about-face from its previous stance. But what does it all mean? From Facebook...more

Smart & Biggar

Federal Court upholds validity of one pneumococcal vaccine patent, but holds two other patents invalid

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Update: Wyeth’s appeal was discontinued. On April 30, 2021, the Federal Court issued its decision relating to the validity of three patents relating to Pfizer’s PREVNAR 13, a 13-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide protein...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

GOP Legislators Write in Opposition to Proposed TRIPS Waiver

Earlier this month, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced "the Biden-Harris Administration's support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines."  One day prior to Ambassador...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Population of Patents at Risk from Proposed WTO Patent Waiver

Dennis Crouch, our colleague at Patently-O, tweeted last week that there have Dennis Crouch, our colleague at Patently-O, tweeted last week that there have been 148 U.S. patents granted having disclosure related to (COVID-19...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Pfizer CEO Pens Open Letter on COVID-19 Vaccine IP Waiver

On Friday, Dr. Albert Bourla, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer, sent an open letter to Pfizer employees regarding the U.S. Trade Representative's announcement last week that the Biden-Harris Administration...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Waiver Of Intellectual Property Protections For COVID-19 Vaccine Unlikely To Have Meaningful Impact In Short Term

On Wednesday, May 7, 2021, the United States officially endorsed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. While the United States has taken the opposite position in recent months, the administration...more

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Patents on COVID-19 Vaccines Feel free to infringe

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There was big news from the Biden administration yesterday regarding patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines. Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative, announced in an official statement dated May 5, 2021 that the...more

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Is ADR the Cure for COVID-19-Related Litigation? - The benefits of having a neutral with life sciences experience to resolve your...

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As we continue our battle against COVID-19, one of the successes is the speed with which pharmaceutical companies have developed vaccines. For those not familiar with the science and the process of getting new drugs to...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Dr. Claire Fraser

Our “Innovation Conversations” series continues with our guest Dr. Claire Fraser, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Dr. Claire Fraser (transcript)

Our “Innovation Conversations” series continues with our guest Dr. Claire Fraser, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Virtual Event] 36th Annual FDA Boot Camp - March 24th - 25th, 8:15 am - 1:45 pm EDT

ACI’s FDA Boot Camp returns in a completely interactive virtual format to help life sciences attorneys and executives to master the fundamentals of FDA Regulation... Gain essential working knowledge of core FDA concepts,...more

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