Category Archives: IP

The Patent Black Label: Six Side-Effects of India's Novartis Glivec Ruling

By William Looney | Published: April 3, 2013
Monday’s decision by India’s Supreme Court to deny a patent for the top-selling oncologic drug Glivec took nearly a decade of litigation to resolve – but the implications in and beyond India are both immediate and lasting.  Here’s a list of six that Pharm Exec thinks are most important:
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The FTC's Beef with Pay For Delay: What's the Fuss?

By Clark Herman | Published: March 26, 2013
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the matter of pay-for-delay settlements between patent holders and generic firms. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hopes to overturn the 11th federal circuit’s ruling that such settlements are not anti-competitive on the grounds that these settlements amount to a restraint of trade under the commerce clause of the [...]
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FTC v. Actavis: The Wrong End of the Telescope

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 25, 2013
by Traci Medford-Rosow and Peter C. Richardson On December 8, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) v. Actavis, Inc. case. The court’s grant of certiorari marked the latest chapter in a decade-long effort by the FTC to have the court rule on the festering issue of whether pay-for-delay provisions in [...]
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Emerging Countries' R&D: A Contest, but No Wipe Out

By Clark Herman | Published: March 5, 2013
Emerging country markets are widely viewed as Big Pharma’s ace in the hole to replace declining rates of innovation in the US and Europe, with numerous studies claiming the BRICK nations (the ‘K’ is from South Korea) are at the center of a revolutionary global shift in the source points for new ideas —  what [...]
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Global Patent Management Made Easy

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 4, 2013
Patent Management Made Easy Even with a successfully launched start-up or spin-out to your name, you may still be tempted to close your eyes to the complexities of IP. But it’s actually very simple, writes Jason Rutt. So, you have done it. You have left big business or forsaken the dusty halls of academia to launch that [...]
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