A U.S. appeals court overruled its prior decision, deciding that the patent for Novartis AG’s blockbuster drug Gilenya was invalid. The decision dealt a blow against the Swiss pharmaceutical company as it potentially paves the way for the introduction of cheaper generic versions of the drug. Though the drug made $2.8 billion in 2021 globally,…
Novartis Loses Patent Appeal Over $2.8 Billion Multiple Sclerosis Drug Against Chinese Pharma
Impossible Foods Sues Startup Motif Foodworks Over Meatless Burger Patent
Meatless burger maker Impossible Foods sued competitor Motif Foodworks on Wednesday, accusing the startup of copying its technology for imitating the taste of real meat. The lawsuit filed in Delaware federal court said Motif, a spinoff of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, infringes an Impossible Foods patent by using the protein molecule heme in its plant-based…
Russia Removes Protections for Patent Holders From ‘Unfriendly’ Countries: Reports
March 10, 2022
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Russia has issued a decree effectively removing protections for patent holders who are registered in countries that are hostile to Moscow. The decree, issued this week, also states that Russia can remove such protections for patent holders who do business or hold the nationality of those countries it deems as “unfriendly” according to The Washington…
GSK to Get $1.25 Billion to Settle HIV Drug Patent Row With Gilead
Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline will receive $1.25 billion from Gilead Sciences as part of a settlement between its HIV medicines unit and the U.S.-based drugmaker, ending a long-drawn patent dispute. The settlement, announced by GSK on Tuesday, relates to Gilead’s antiretroviral drug Biktarvy, a medicine used to check the AIDS-causing virus, which GSK said in 2018 infringed…
Sonos Wins Google Import Ban Ruling in US Patent Fight
WASHINGTON—A U.S. trade court barred Google late Thursday from importing products that infringe home-audio company Sonos’s smart-speaker patents. The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an August decision that Google audio products infringed five Sonos patents and banned Google from importing “networked speaker devices” and devices that can control them like mobile phones and laptops. The…
Novartis Says US Court Upholds Gilenya Patent
January 5, 2022
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ZURICH—Novartis AG said on Tuesday a U.S. court of appeals upheld the validity of a dosage regimen patent for its multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya, allowing a permanent injunction against Chinese generic drugmaker HEC Pharma to stay in place until the patent expires in 2027. “This decision confirms the validity of the patent and allows that…
Volkswagen Says Patent Suit by Taiwan’s Acer Is Unfounded
BERLIN—Volkswagen said allegations made against it by Acer were unfounded, after a magazine reported that the Taiwanese computer maker had sued the German carmaker for infringing on its mobile network patents. German weekly WirtschaftsWoche had reported earlier on Tuesday that Acer had filed a suit in the U.S. state of Virginia, alleging that Volkswagen had…
Chinese AI Company Seeks to Block Apple’s iPhone Sales Ahead of New Device Launch
Just days ahead of Apple’s launch of the new iPhone 13, a Chinese AI company is seeking an injunction that would block Apple’s iPhone production and sales, over a patent dispute involving digital personal assistant Siri. Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology, also known as Xiao-i Robot, filed an application with the Shanghai Higher People’s Court…
Emerging Pandemic Risks Come From Engineered Viruses in Chinese Labs, Not the Jungle or Bat Caves
September 4, 2021
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Commentary It is essential that we refocus our capabilities on the demonstrably highest probability source of the next global pandemic: genetically-engineered viruses that are being increasingly created in labs in China. Aggregating Disparate Information Over the course of late-2019 to the present, humanity has experienced the most disruptive series of events since World War II. However,…
Jury Awards Optis $300 Million in Second Patent Trial Against Apple
A U.S. jury on Friday awarded Optis Wireless Technology LLC and several related companies $300 million in damages after a second patent trial against iPhone maker Apple Inc. A jury had previously found that Apple had infringed five Optis wireless standard essential patents and awarded $506 million in damages, but U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap…
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