September 2024

JAMP filed an application with the Competition Tribunal on July 26, 2024, seeking leave to bring an abuse of dominance case against Janssen relating to ustekinumab (Janssen’s STELARA).  JAMP proposes to allege that its ustekinumab biosimilar (JAMTEKI) business, or alternatively its biosimilars business, has been significantly harmed by Janssen’s “gaming of the regulatory system and […]

By George Woolston (September 30, 2024, 1:48 PM EDT) — A former competitive strategy director for Johnson & Johnson accused of stealing confidential files as he left the company to work for Pfizer asked a New Jersey federal court to pause the suit after learning he is under criminal investigation…. Law360 is on it, so

Newsletter sections: Domain name industry news Domain name recuperation news Oh .MY! In June of this year, MYNIC, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .MY (Malaysia), relaunched the second-level .MY TLD, opening up registrations to the global market and removing all local presence restrictions. Although one might have expected this

The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft. Source link

In the United States, the intellectual property rights system for plants is multifaceted, encompassing utility patents, plant patents, trademarks, and Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Certificates. These mechanisms offer different types of protection and are not mutually exclusive. Utility patents protect both sexually and asexually propagated plants for 20 years from filing. Protection can cover genetically

On September 10, minutes after the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, an Instagram post set the political world abuzz: Taylor Swift endorsed Harris in the race. The announcement from one of the world’s biggest stars was newsworthy in itself, but IP lawyers likely took note of why she chose

Approval of Accord’s Trastuzumab Biosimilar: On September 18, 2024, Accord announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a 420 mg dosage of HERCESSI (trastuzumab-strf), a biosimilar to Genentech’s HERCEPTIN (trastuzumab), to treat HER2-overexpressing breast and gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. As we previously reported, HERCESSI was approved earlier this year by the FDA

As challenging global market conditions linger, fashion brands and retailers in need of liquidity are exploring ways to extract cash from their brand portfolios without divesting entirely. In this article, we consider a popular approach in corporate transactions in the UK fashion industry. For UK fashion, the past decade has been a hard sell. After

“The Second Circuit also found that the district court was within its discretion to enter judgment without considering lesser sanctions due to Goldman’s repeated discovery abuses and misrepresentations to the district court.” On September 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Abbott Laboratories v. H&H Wholesale Services, Inc.,

[co-author: Courtney Moore, Law Clerk]   The Second Circuit recently affirmed a ruling that Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, violated the Copyright Act with its “Controlled Digital Lending” program. In 2020, four leading book publishers sued Internet Archive in the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement after Internet Archive began offering entire