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U.S. Trade Representative Releases 2025 Special 301 Report

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/7/2025

On April 29th, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), issued the 2025 Special 301 Report. In a press release (being quite different in tone from many over the past decade), the USTR stated that "[o]ur...more

AI Drug Development: FDA Releases Draft Guidance

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/16/2025

On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance titled Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence To Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products...more

AI in Biotech and Synthetic Biology: What Can Be Protected? What Should Be Kept Secret?

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 8/11/2021

Machine learning (ML), bioinformatics, artificial intelligence (AI), and other computational tools have become ubiquitous in the biotech and synthetic biology industries because such technology allows for rapid processing of...more

Anticipating President Biden’s Intellectual Property Policy in an Historical Context

Porter Hedges LLP on 6/10/2021

Presidential administrations have affected intellectual property (IP) policy since the very beginning of United States history. In his first State of the Union address in 1790, President George Washington addressed patents....more

Update on the Proposed TRIPS Waiver at the WTO: Where is it Headed, and What to Expect?

King & Spalding on 6/8/2021

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

Key Steps The Pharma And Bioscience Sectors Must Take Ahead Of Federal Scrutiny Of COVID-19 Relief Funding

Fox Rothschild LLP on 11/24/2020

An unprecedented explosion of government investigation and enforcement is at hand as federal regulators focus their efforts on ferreting out any fraud or abuse of the $1 trillion in COVID-19 relief funding programs through...more

ALJ Recommends Exclusion in Botox Trade Secret Case

Goodwin on 7/9/2020

We previously reported on an International Trade Commission hearing in a trade secret dispute brought by Allergan and Medytox against Daewoong and Evolus. In the underlying investigation, Allergan and Medytox seek to block...more

ITC Trial Wraps Up on Botox Trade Secret Case

Goodwin on 2/11/2020

Last week a trial was held before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in the trade secret case brought by Allergan and Medytox against Daewoong and Evolus. Allergan and Medytox filed a complaint with the ITC on January...more

Pennsylvania Federal Court Finds That Plaintiff’s Trade Secret Misappropriation Allegations Hold Up

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/18/2018

A Pennsylvania federal court recently denied Defendant Synchrony Group, LLC’s motion to dismiss a trade secret lawsuit filed by Plaintiff Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Jazz”) holding that Plaintiff sufficiently stated a trade...more

Guidebook: Cybersecurity in the Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices Industries

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/4/2017

As a life sciences or medical device company, it is mission critical to protect lab books, drug and clinical test data, product formulas and production processes that underlie your patents, trade secrets and know-how from...more

Third Circuit Rejects Presumption of Irreparable Harm for Injunctive Relief under Lanham Act

Proskauer Rose LLP on 8/29/2014

Following a series of recent appellate decisions across the spectrum of intellectual property disciplines, including the fields of patent, copyright and trade secrets, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that...more

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