Legal

Merck announced positive results on its patent infringement case against Viatris, while Amgen faces political headwinds from the White House.
A 3-judge panel questioned the legitimacy of Johnson & Johnson’s plan to form a subsidiary company with the purpose of absorbing legal liabilities from talc-related lawsuits.
Novartis confirmed it is the subject of an investigation by the Swiss Competition Commission over possible unlawful patent use.
A Manhattan court dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis, which had alleged the company paid doctors to promote its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya.
A new report has shed light on some pharmaceutical companies’ attempts to circumvent federal anti-kickback statutes by profiting from large donations to patient assistance organizations.
The Administrative Law Judge overseeing the FTC’s challenge of Illumina’s acquisition of Grail rejected the regulator’s anti-competition argument, Illumina announced Thursday.
A High Court judge in London granted AstraZeneca an injunction, temporarily blocking a former executive from joining rival pharma GSK.
The problem of intellectual property theft is greater than most biopharma executives realize, but the real issue is that companies are protecting only a fraction of their IP.
The University of Michigan and the University of South Florida have filed a lawsuit against Novartis, alleging the company’s cardiac drug, Entresto, infringes a cocrystal patent held by both universities.
Moderna announced it is filing lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine infringes patents covering its mRNA technology.
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