Legal
Sam Isaly has finally stepped down from his position as a managing member OrbiMed more than four months after he was accused of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment allegations have been in the forefront of the news cycles for months as the #MeToo movement gained traction.
Patent fights are nothing new in the pharmaceutical industry but a new report shows that during 2017 the number of legal battles of pharmaceutical patents increased by 30 percent.
All that is lacking from the likely drama surrounding patent battles over CRISPR technology in the U.S. Court of Appeals today is Michael Buffer’s cry of “Let’s get ready to rumble.”
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the nation’s pharmaceutical industry when it upheld the constitutionality of Inter Partes Review (IPR).
The chief executive officer and two associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PixarBio were arrested yesterday and charged with securities fraud.
A nonprofit organization, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), recently filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over Gilead Sciences’ patents for a new chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy.
Utah’s Salt Lake County is the latest governing body to enter the legal battle against opioid manufacturers, distributors and prescribers. Governments are seeking financial restitution for the funds they have spent on battling addiction to prescription opioid medications.
Amid news of a whistleblower lawsuit, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals (MNK:NYSE) shares dropped 9.51% yesterday.
One month after three patients who developed adverse reactions following injections of an unauthorized herpes vaccine filed a lawsuit against Rational Vaccines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into the matter.
Sarepta Therapeutics is breathing a little easier this morning. On Wednesday a federal appeals court supported a previous court’s decision to dismiss charges that the company misled shareholders as it vied to gain approval for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment.
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