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On July 30, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware entered a Final Judgment in the dispute between Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Alnylam”) and Pfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”)—concluding that Pfizer’s...more
Partner Dan Shores will present a webinar titled "mRNA Patent Wars Update: Litigations Expand and Key Rulings Expected in 2025" for Medmarc, the leading expert in the products liability risks facing medical technology and...more
Last week, GlaxoSmithKline and Northwestern University filed separate lawsuits against Moderna, accusing its mRNA-based vaccines of patent infringement....more
As Big Molecule Watch continues to push past the bounds of biosimilars and into biologics, we are proud to announce the publication of two additional trackers concerning vaccines: the Vaccine Patent Litigation tracker and the...more
Late last week, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and GlaxoSmithKline LLC filed suit in the District of Delaware alleging that Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn, BioNtech SE, BioNtech Manufacturing GMBH, and BioNTech US, Inc....more
As an update to our previous report, Biocon Biologics Ltd. (a subsidiary of Biocon Ltd.) announced the successful completion of the transition of the acquired biosimilars business in approximately 120 countries, a year ahead...more
Acuitas Therapeutics Inc. (“Acuitas”) filed a complaint on November 13 against CureVac in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging incorrect inventorship of four U.S. Patents related to...more
On February 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a "zero draft" of a WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (or "WHO CA+") for the...more
Key Points - On December 6, days before a deadline for WTO members to decide whether to expand the TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines to cover COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics as well, the Office of the USTR...more
In the first major patent infringement lawsuit in the mRNA space, on February 28, 2022, Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus”) and Genevant Sciences GmbH (“Genevant”) sued Moderna, Inc. and ModernaTX, Inc. (collectively...more
As posted Monday, BIO (the Biotechnology Innovation Organization) provided a link to the supposed compromise agreement reached recently to permit WTO member states to waive patent protection for "subject matter required for...more
In April of 2021, we provided a three-part series relating to the IP and Competitive Landscape for the mRNA market. In this post we provide a 2021 year in review update on mRNA pioneers and key players and offer additional...more
In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome Akin Gump public law and policy partner Clete Willems and Centrient...more
On June 8-9, 2021, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council will hold their first meeting in the wake of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announcing “the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for waiving...more
Update: Wyeth’s appeal was discontinued. On April 30, 2021, the Federal Court issued its decision relating to the validity of three patents relating to Pfizer’s PREVNAR 13, a 13-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide protein...more
Earlier this month, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced "the Biden-Harris Administration's support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines." One day prior to Ambassador...more
Dennis Crouch, our colleague at Patently-O, tweeted last week that there have Dennis Crouch, our colleague at Patently-O, tweeted last week that there have been 148 U.S. patents granted having disclosure related to (COVID-19...more
On Friday, Dr. Albert Bourla, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer, sent an open letter to Pfizer employees regarding the U.S. Trade Representative's announcement last week that the Biden-Harris Administration...more
On Wednesday, May 7, 2021, the United States officially endorsed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. While the United States has taken the opposite position in recent months, the administration...more
In Part I of this three-part series, we focused on three mRNA technology market players: BioNTech, Moderna and CureVac. In this second post, we will focus on Translate BIO, Arcturus Therapeutics, and eTheRNA and discuss...more
In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome public law and policy partners Ed Pagano and Clete Willems to talk federal health...more
As previously reported... on September 16, 2020, Canada’s Minister of Health approved an Interim Order Respecting the Importation, Sale and Advertising of Drugs for Use in Relation to COVID-19 (the ISAD Interim Order), which...more
ACI’s FDA Boot Camp returns in a completely interactive virtual format to help life sciences attorneys and executives to master the fundamentals of FDA Regulation... Gain essential working knowledge of core FDA concepts,...more
Canadian Innovation Week, namely November 16th to November 20th this year, is a movement organized by the Rideau Hall Foundation and Canadian Innovation Space which seeks to recognize Canadians advancing their respective...more
Update: On November 23, Innovative Medicines Canada and a number of pharmaceutical companies commenced an application for judicial review of the final Guidelines. See also the PMPRB’s November 20, 2020 webinar slides here....more