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MSN Laboratories Private Ltd. v. Bausch Health Ireland Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2025)

As has been noted recently (Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp.), fact-based decisions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (typically from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) are reviewed under the substantial...more

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Federal Court finds Minister of Health reasonable in concluding JAMP not a ‘second person’ for its SIMLANDI biosimilar

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On August 17, 2022, the Federal Court, per Justice Fothergill, dismissed AbbVie’s applications for judicial review of the Minister of Health’s decisions that (1) JAMP was not a “second person” and therefore it was not...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more

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2020 Highlights in Canadian Life Sciences IP and Regulatory Law

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In 2020, Rx IP Update reported on a number of developments in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law. We review top developments below: Table of Contents 1. COVID-19: CIPO, Federal Courts, Health Canada 2. PMPRB:...more

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Federal Court finds reasonable Health Canada’s decision that enantiomer of previously approved drug not entitled to data...

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Update: On July 12, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Janssen’s appeal from Zinn J.’s decision: Janssen Inc v Attorney General of Canada (Minister of Health), 2021 FCA 137 (see article here). On September 18,...more

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California's New Reverse Payment Law Departs from Supreme Court Standard in FTC v. Actavis

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On October 7, 2019, California became the first state to enact legislation—Assembly Bill 824 ("AB 824")—rendering certain pharmaceutical patent litigation settlement agreements presumptively anticompetitive. This alert...more

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Rx IP Update - March 2019

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Federal Court finds invalidity allegations relating to patent for metformin formulations not justified - On March 8, 2019, Justice Fothergill granted Valeant Canada’s application for an order prohibiting the Minister of...more

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2018 Highlights in Canadian Life Sciences IP

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In 2018 we reported on a number of developments in life sciences IP and regulatory law. Our most-read articles were: #1 a June update on biosimilars (authored by Urszula Wojtyra); #2 a “live” summary chart of Vanessa’s Law...more

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Federal Circuit Provides More Guidance On Biosimilar Patent Litigation

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In Amgen Inc. v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that Amgen could not obtain discovery related to activities that might infringe a patent that it had not asserted in its biosimilar patent litigation against Hospira....more

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Recent Federal Circuit Decision Could Change the Game for Inter Partes Review Petitions

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With limited exceptions, anyone but the patent owner can challenge the validity of a patent by filing an inter partes review (IPR) petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Not every IPR petitioner, however, can seek...more

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