26.03.2013
- Monsanto and DuPont have settled a bitter legal battle over rights to technology for genetically modified seeds and will drop antitrust and patent claims against each other while...
25.03.2013
- AstraZeneca has seen off a remaining threat to its top-selling cholesterol drug Crestor by settling a U.S. legal case with Watson Laboratories, a unit of Actavis, and Egis. The...
23.03.2013
- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday over whether big drug companies can settle patent litigation with generic rivals by making deals to keep cheaper products off...
14.03.2013
- Lonza Walkersville and Hyglos, a German biotech company, announced today that they have reached a mutually beneficial global settlement which includes a license agreement for...
09.03.2013
- A Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson & Johnson's DePuy orthopedic unit to pay more than $8 million in damages in the first trial of nearly 11,000 lawsuits filed over the company's...
05.03.2013
- U.S. regulators granted Pfizer a reissued patent on its multibillion-dollar Celebrex pain drug that extends its marketing exclusivity until early December 2015, the company said on...
05.03.2013
- Par Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay $45 million to settle federal criminal and civil probes over its marketing and sale of a drug to treat appetite loss in AIDS patients, a...
04.03.2013
- Dow Chemical said an arbitrator has ruled it is owed $2.48 billion by a Kuwaiti firm that scuttled a 2008 joint venture, though it is not clear when the funds will be paid. The...