The United States Patent and Trademark Office revised the policy on when a second or subsequent request for reexamination is filed while an ?earlier filed reexamination? is pending, and the second or subsequent request cites only prior art, which raised a substantial new question of patentability (SNQ) in the pending reexamination proceeding. See MPEP ? […]
Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking exclusive rights to sell a generic version of Sanofi-Aventis’ Allegra-D allergy drug. In the suit, Barr is challenging the FDA’s policy of awarding generic exclusivity on a patent-by-patent basis rather than solely to the […]
Under a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy, which is designed to provide easier access to tax supported research, researchers who receive grant money from the National Institutes of Health will be "asked" to submit their results to a public Web site within a year after they are published in a scientific […]
Law.com reported that the California Supreme Court agreed to review an appellate decision in which a $500 million judgment for City of Hope National Medical Center against Genentech, including $200 million in punitive damages. Genentech negotiated a license agreement to develop and market human insulin and human growth hormone based on research at City of […]
The Cincinnati Enquirer ran an article about a new a state-created venture fund charged with raising $100 million and steering at least half of it into Ohio startup companies. The new company, Buckeye Venture Partners, will be headed by a unit of Western & Southern Financial Group of Cincinnati. Buckeye Venture Partners will serve as […]
Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Consolidated Appropriations Act), the USPTO splits the national fee for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications entering the national stage into a separate national fee, search fee and examination fee, during fiscal years 2005 and 2006. The USPTO announced that it is reducing the search fee and examination fee for […]
As reported in the New York Times, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new supplemental ethics regulation that addresses the concerns raised by the activities of some of its employees, particularly regarding outside consulting with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The regulation was developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), […]
mMicrosoft put out its own search engine on its MSN Web site, today. This, after admitting that it totally missed the boat sailed by Google Inc. and others. While one can argue the merits of putting a lot of resources into searching the web, I thought I’d at least take a look. I did a […]
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