Dec 18, 2023 Crossing the Blurred Line Between Brands and Generics By Aziz Burgy Ian Swan Clients often ask if a law firm can represent both brand and generic drug manufacturers. It’s a reasonable question, particularly when...
Dec 15, 2023 Reflecting on 2023 Events: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion By Axinn Events We proudly partnered with several diversity-focused organizations throughout 2023, supporting events that brought together attorneys from...
Dec 15, 2023 The Inflation Reduction Act’s First Potential Impact on Biosimilars By Ted Mathias Ross Blau Chantelle Ankerman On October 31, 2023, FDA approved Amgen’s Wezlana (ustekinumab-auub) as a biosimilar to and interchangeable with Janssen’s Stelara...
Dec 14, 2023 FTC Spoke, Kaleo and Impax Listened: Orange Book Patent Delistings Begin By Ross Blau As discussed last month, the FTC sent letters to 10 pharmaceutical companies, asserting that their listing of over 100 patents in FDA’s...
Dec 13, 2023 Reading Tea Leaves: Oral Arguments in Motorola v. Hytera and the Extraterritorial Reach of the DTSA By Nicholas Duffee Matt Murphy Last week, the Seventh Circuit heard arguments in Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. concerning when, if at all,...
Dec 11, 2023 The Skinny on Infringement of Method of Treatment Claims By Rebecca Clegg In Hatch-Waxman litigation, method of treatment patents present unique infringement issues. Because generic drug manufacturers typically...
Dec 06, 2023 Clarity May Be Around the Corner for Antitrust Scrutiny of Reverse Payment Settlements By Ted Mathias Caroline Boisvert In the ten years since the Supreme Court ruled in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis that reverse payment settlements—or settlements...
Nov 29, 2023 Motorola v. Hytera: Seventh Circuit Set to Hear Arguments on the Extraterritorial Reach of DTSA By Matt Murphy Nicholas Duffee On December 5, the Seventh Circuit in Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. will hear high-stakes arguments concerning...
Nov 27, 2023 The Federal Circuit Spins a Yarn By Ted Mathias Matt Murphy The Federal Circuit's decision on claim construction, Barrday, Inc. v. Lincoln Fabrics, Inc., 2023-1903, 2023 WL 7871688 (Fed. Cir. Nov....
Nov 21, 2023 Empowering Career Development at CYOC By Axinn Events Axinn is a proud supporter of this year's Charting Your Own Course (CYOC) Career Development Conference, hosted by Stakeholders. For...
Nov 20, 2023 Trade Secrets, ET, and the ITC By Matt Murphy Brian Johnson The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has broad power to issue exclusion orders blocking the importation of goods determined to...
Nov 20, 2023 The Sewage of Expert Report Deadlines By Ted Mathias Expert report deadlines are a feature of every patent case's scheduling order, but they nevertheless are the constant source of disputes....
Nov 17, 2023 Advanced EU Competition Law Brussels By Axinn Events Join Axinn partners Tiffany Rider, Jimmy Attridge, and Nick Gaglio in Brussels from November 20-22 at CompLaw's Advanced EU Competition...
Nov 16, 2023 Cooperation or Collusion? FTC Defends Interagency Contacts By Lisl Dunlop Does interaction between the Federal Trade Commission and other antitrust enforcers around the world benefit merging parties, or does it...
Nov 16, 2023 The Sneaky-Powerful Defense That Came Up Short - This Time By Ted Mathias A great thing about patent litigation is the vast array of legal doctrines, arguments, and defenses that can come up in any given case....
Nov 16, 2023 DOJ Provides More Specific Guidance About Criminal Enforcement of Section 2 By Jimmy Attridge Since the Antitrust Division's March 2022 announcement that it would once again consider and bring criminal charges for violations of...