Legal
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.
As legal battles over opioid drugs slowly move through the courts the U.S. Department of Justice is adding its weight to the matter. This week the DOJ asked the courts for permission to help settle disputes brought by state and local governments against opioid manufacturers and distributors.
Amgen gets to breathe a small, but temporary sigh of relief as a court case determining whether or not Novartis subsidiary Sandoz can launch its biosimilar challenge to blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel has been delayed.
Novartis filed a federal lawsuit against a former executive, Alisha Alaimo. The lawsuit alleged that Alaimo stole confidential files using a flash drive before joining Biogen.
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