27.02.2013
- GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor...
01.12.2012
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a hotly contested issue with broad practical and ethical consequences for the future of gene...
09.11.2012
- Canada's Supreme Court struck down the patent on global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer's Viagra erectile dysfunction drug on Thursday and opened the door to generic competition. The...
03.11.2012
- India dealt a fresh blow to the international pharmaceutical industry on Friday as its patents appeal board revoked a patent granted six years ago on Roche's hepatitis C drug...
15.10.2012
- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Allergans appeal of a ruling that favored generic drugmaker Watson Pharmaceuticals over patents related to the treatment of an overactive...
16.08.2012
- A federal appeals court on Thursday revived its decision to uphold Myriad Genetics's patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer, after the U.S. Supreme Court told it...
21.07.2012
- Myriad Genetics illegally patented acts of nature when it claimed ownership of two genes linked to cancer, the federal government told an appeals court on Friday. Lawyers from...
15.07.2012
- Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl...
