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Texas District Court Vacates FDA’s Final Rule Expanding Oversight to Laboratory Tests in Hospitals

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In our May 2024 Healthcare Alert, we discussed a final rule published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amending its regulations to include in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs), even those manufactured in a...more

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Federal Court Vacates FDA's Final Rule on Laboratory-Developed Tests

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On March 31, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas issued a decision in the case brought by the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), challenging the FDA’s final rule...more

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Federal Court Vacates LDT Final Rule

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) final rule on March 31, 2025, under which the FDA would have started regulating most laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)...more

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Federal District Court Vacates FDA’s LDT Final Rule

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On March 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated the FDA’s Final Rule on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), holding that the agency lacks authority to regulate LDTs as medical devices...more

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District Court Embraces Loper Bright and Overturns FDA Laboratory Developed Test Rule – What Lies Ahead?

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On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA (“ACLA v. FDA”), a closely watched case...more

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FDA’s Attempt to Regulate Lab-Developed Tests Struck Down in Federal Court

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On March 31, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas vacated the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule that sought to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and...more

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Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs) Do Not Qualify as ‘Devices’ Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act

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On March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule, in which FDA attempted to assert regulatory authority over laboratory-developed...more

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LDT Final Rule Series: Part 4 – Rule Overturned by Federal District Court

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Last Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (the “District Court”) issued a highly anticipated – and unsurprising – opinion invalidating the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (“FDA’s” or the...more

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FDA’s LDT Final Rule Rejected by Federal District Court in Texas

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As Wilson Sonsini previously reported,1 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been preparing the industry to comply with the 2024 LDT Final Rule, which phases out the FDA’s enforcement discretion policy for...more

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The Clear and Unmistakable Standard for Applying Prosecution Disclaimer

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a district court misconstrued claim terms based on a misapplication of the clear and unequivocal disavowal standard and vacated its noninfringement decision. Maquet...more

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Texas Court Vacates FDA’s Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) Final Rule

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A Texas judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a ruling on March 31, 2025, to vacate and set aside, in its entirety, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Final Rule titled Medical...more

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Seventh Circuit Refuses to Vacate Arbitration Award Under Public Policy Exception

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently refused to invalidate an arbitration award in a breach of contract case involving patent royalties based on purported violations of public policy....more

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Second Circuit Vacates Conviction of Pharmaceutical Distributor on Advice-of-Counsel Defense

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Last week, in United States v. Scully, the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of a distributor of pharmaceutical products on misbranding charges due to evidentiary issues surrounding his advice-of-counsel defense at trial....more

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Medical Device Manufacturers’ Duty to Warn Expands

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The Washington State Supreme Court recently released its decision in Taylor v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. where it held that Washington law requires medical device manufacturers to warn hospitals that purchase their products of...more

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Design Patent Case Digest: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien, Inc.

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Decision Date: August 7, 2015 - Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - Patent: D661,801; D661,802; D661,803; D661,804 - Holding: Summary judgment of invalidity REVERSED; claim construction...more

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