• March 12, 2019 | New York Law Journal

    Federal Circuit May Decide Whether Successful IPR Petitioners Are Estopped from Using Winning Prior Art Combinations in Parallel District Court Litigation

    Intellectual Property Litigation columnists Lewis R. Clayton and Eric Alan Stone discuss 'BTG Int'l Ltd. v. Amneal Pharm.', in which the Federal Circuit may decide whether §315(e)(2) acts to bar a successful IPR petitioner from asserting in district court the arguments on which it prevailed before the PTAB.

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  • March 11, 2019 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Takeda Unit Asks Judge to Wipe Out $155M Infringement Verdict Over Hemophilia Drug

    In a court filing Friday, Baxalta Inc. argued that Bayer's patent was invalid and that the German-based pharmaceutical firm had presented no evidence to support the jury's damages award.

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  • March 8, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Attraction to E-Cigarettes Is Actually One of Its Biggest Risks

    What is most attractive about e-cigarettes like the JUUL is that they come in a variety of flavors and are widely accessible, drawing in JUUL's most common user, the young adult.

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  • February 28, 2019 | Corporate Counsel

    Tesla, CBS and United See New General Counsel: February 2019 In-House Moves

    A roundup of major in-house moves occurring in February.

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  • February 22, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Allentown Pharma Company Agrees to Pay $4M Penalty for Allegedly Dodging FDA Fees

    Lehigh Valley Technologies, an Allentown-based pharmaceutical company, has entered into a $4 million agreement with the government to settle claims that it schemed to avoid paying certain FDA fees, Philadelphia-area U.S. Attorney William McSwain announced Friday.

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  • State of Delaware v. Purdue Pharma L.P.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Newell, Shaun Michael Kelly and Kyle Evans Gay of Connolly Gallagher, LLP; Richard W. Fields of Fields PLLC; Scott W. Gilbert, Richard Shore, Mark A. Packman, Jenna A. Hudson, Michael B. Rush, Monique T. Abrishami and Richard J. Leveridge, Gilbert LLP, Washington, DC; Kathleen Jen-nings, attorney general, and Michael Vild and Michelle Whalen, Delaware Dep't of Justice for the state.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome and Kelly E. Rowe, Reilly, McDevitt & Henrich, PC, Wilmington, DE; Mark S. Cheffo, Hay-den A. Coleman, Debra D. O'Gorman and Judy L. Leone, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant Purdue Pharma. Michael P. Kelly, Steven P. Wood, Daniel J. Brown and Hayley J. Reese, McCarter & English, Wilmington, DE; John A. Freedman and Sean O. Morris, Arnold & Porter Kay Scholer LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant Endo Pharmaceuticals. Kevin B. Collins, Katherine B. Shaffer and Neil K. Roman, Covington & Burling, New York, NY; A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, Sarah E. Delia, David A. Seal and Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE for defendant McKesson Corp. David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser LLP, Wilmington, DE, Steven Pyser, Ashley W. Hardin and Joshua D. Tully, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC for defendant Cardinal Health. Jennifer C. Wasson, Jesse L. Noa and Carla M. Jones, Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Louis W. Schack, Shan-non E. McClure and Neil A. Hlawatsch of Reed Smith LLP for defendant AmerisourceBergen. Jami B. Nimeroff, Brown, Garry, Nimeroff, Wilmington, DE; James W. Matthews, Katy E. Koski, Jaclyn V. Piltch and Redi Kasollja, Foley & Lardner, Boston, MA for defendant Anda Pharmaceuticals. Thomas E. Han-son and Oni N. Harton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE and Indianapolis, IN for defendant H.D. Smith LLC. Daniel B. Rath, Rebecca L. Butcher and Jennifer L. Cree, Landis, Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric R. Delinsky, Alexandra W. Miller and R. Miles Clark, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Washington, DC for defendant CVS Health Corp. Beth Moskow-Schnoll, William Burton and Elizabeth A. Sloan, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kaspar J. Stoffelmayr, Katherine M. Swift and Alex J. Har-ris, Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO for defendant Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

    Case Number: D68469

    The state adequately alleged claims against manufacturers and distributors of opioids, but the court dismissed public nuisance, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment claims.

  • Nguyen v. New Link Genetics Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. - SDNY
    Judge: District Judge William Pauley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 16 cv 3545

    Securities Fraud Suit Over Cancer Drug Dismissed; Falsity, Loss Causation Not Pleaded

  • February 13, 2019 | Law.com

    Inside Track: A GC for Robots? | Into the Breach - GDPR Edition

    A consensus is forming that AI needs legal supervision. Also, data breaches reported in Europe suggest a looming wave of GDPR enforcement and we suss out the difference between the roles of GC and chief legal officer.

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  • February 11, 2019 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    AbbVie Ordered to Quickly Produce Docs in Humira Infringement Suit

    The Feb. 8 ruling, from U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lloret, came in response to Boehringer's second set of production requests pertaining to its "unclean hands" defense in Abbvie's infringement suit, which accuses the German drugmaker of trying to illegally capitalize on Humira's clinical success.

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  • February 8, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Bayer Wins $155M Patent Infringement Verdict Over Hemophilia Treatment

    A federal jury has ordered a unit of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to pay Bayer HealthCare LLC $155 million in damages for infringing a patent related to Bayer's hemophilia treatment.

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