The article sheds light on preliminary injunction proceedings before the local division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Munich between the applicant Tiroler Rohre (TRM) and the defendants SSAB Swedish Steel GmbH and SSAB Europe Oy concerning pile shoes for anchoring str...
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In the ongoing case between Sanofi and the generic drug manufacturer Accord, the Paris Judicial Court has fully revoked Sanofi’s patent for the chemotherapy drug Jevtana. The patent EP 2 493 466, which protects a new use of cabazitaxel in combination with prednisone or pre...
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Deal provides Cytokinetics with diversified access to capital as company advances its specialty cardiology franchise NEW YORK, NY and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 22, 2024 – Royalty Phar...
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Frexalimab is in Phase 3 development by Sanofi in multiple sclerosis with multi-blockbuster potential in a wide range of immune-mediated diseases Expands Royalty Pharma’s ...
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The UPC has become known for its expeditious decision-making processes. Just how expeditious it can be, has been shown in a recent case filed with the Munich local division against one of our clients. After a quick review of the claimant’s statement of claim, we infor...
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On November 30, the city honored companies that have shown particularly exemplary commitment to the well-being of Munich residents with the "Munich's outstanding companies" award. We are delighted that we were able to sup...
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Royalty Pharma to provide R&D funding support of up to $125 million for the development of olanzapine LAI (TEV-‘749), a long-acting subcutaneous injectable olanzapine for schizophrenia
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Maiwald Intellectual Property shows how hybrid and mobile collaboration can be promoted in companies. Together with Hye-Jung (Carolin) Chung and Dr. Stephanie Tremmel, occupational psychologists at ias Aktiengesellschaft and ias health & safety GmbH, a digital mission st...
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Royalty Pharma purchases a portion of royalties on Roche’s Evrysdi for $1.0 billion upfront PTC Therapeutics has option to sell rest of royalty for up to $500 million; Roy...
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We are happy to report that the oppositions filed by our client betapharm and eight other generics manufacturers against Novartis patent EP 3 351 246 were successful; the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office revoked the Novartis patent for lack of inventive step (fi...
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At the end of June, the Federal Patent Court declared a Novartis patent (EP 3 143 990 B1) null and void in its entirety for lack of inventive step (file no. : 3 Ni 13/22). Novartis ma...
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Andernach, Germany - LTS LOHMANN Therapie-Systeme AG (“LTS”), a leading pharmaceutical technology company that develops and manufactures innovative drug delivery systems such as Transdermal Patches (“TTS”), Oral Thin Films (“OTF”) and Micro Array...
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Hybrid collaboration has become a part of everyday life for many companies. For this particular reason, they should encourage a digital mission statement, a healthy approach to technology, and greater digital competence.
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Royalty Pharma has acquired an interest in PureTech’s royalty in Karuna Therapeutics’ KarXT; Royalty Pharma and PureTech will share in royalties above certain annual sales thresholds
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Below are some of the latest senior practitioner moves and firm news across the world. Readers should note that firm and practitioner news can also be found on a firm's review page. EUROPE
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Royalty Pharma to acquire an interest in SPINRAZA® and pelacarsen royalties – Ionis retains majority of royalties and all milestones from Novartis for pelacarsen Royalty ...
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Olpasiran is an siRNA therapeutic being developed by Amgen to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease Arrowhead retains rights to $400 million in development, regulatory and sales milestone payments
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Novel collaboration structure supports pipeline innovation NEW YORK, NY, October 12, 2022 - Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) today announced that it has entered into an agreemen...
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For years, the patent community has debated the level of quality of the patents granted by the EPO. Although the office is making continual efforts to improve, its new Patent Quality Charter has been met with resistance – according to the industry, the EPO's renewed measur...
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Susanna Heurung October 10, 2022 Susanna Heurung of Maiwald examines a decision by the European Cou...
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• Further diversifies Royalty Pharma’s portfolio with market-leading respiratory therapy• Expected to significantly add to long-term Adjusted Cash Receipts growth (non-GAAP) NEW YORK, NY,...
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Attractive, precision oncology therapy with long patent duration added to portfolioBlueprint Medicines to receive $175 million upfront and $165 million in potential milestone payments
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Stada, Zentiva and four other generic drug companies can launch their generic products after Bayer withdrew its second application for a preliminary injunction to protect its cancer drug, Nexavar. But the companies could still face a costly damages claim if the court ultimat...
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Proxygen, a leader in the discovery and development of molecular glue degraders, announced today that the company has entered into a strategic multi-year research collaboration and license agreement with Merck. Proxygen is eligible to receive up to €495 million ($554 milli...
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IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future Across the globe, young people are stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course tow...
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"The EPO Opposition Division has upheld a CRISPR/Cas9 patent belonging to the University of California (Berkeley), University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, following a 15-hour hearing. However, it is just one in a multiple-patent family subject to recent EPO proceed...
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"Mixed German IP firm Maiwald has strengthened its team with SPC expert Ulrike Herr. She joined in February from Isenbruck Bösl Hörschler, whose Munich office recently disbanded due to a string of departures. Ulrike Herr...
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Royalty Pharma Extends Capital to Cytokinetics to Support the Commercial Launch of Omecamtiv Mecarbil and the Further Development of AficamtenRoyalty Pharma Purchases Royalties on Future Sales of Aficamten
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX), BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) and OMERS Capital Markets (OMERS) today announced transactions totaling $350 million in new funding for BioCryst, with all funds immediately available at closing.
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A European Unitary Patent and a Unified Patent Court: The EU aims to create a European Unitary Patent with uniform effect in all member states of the European Union. There are still political and legal debates, but no one doubts that the EU Unitary Patent will come one day.
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Today, the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal has handed down its first order in the high-profile G 1/21 case regarding video conferencing. A press communiqué published on the EPO website confirms that compulsory video conferencing is admissible in appeal proceedings under the Eu...
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The biotech company Morphosys positions itself for further growth in the USA with an acquisition worth billions. The Bavarian pharmaceutical enterprise buys the US biotech company Constellation Pharmaceuticals, which specialises in cancer therapies, as Morphosys announced. T...
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Royalty Pharma to provide tailored funding solution to enable MorphoSys’ acquisition of Constellation PharmaceuticalsInvestment is anchored by royalties on Janssen’s TremfyaPartnership also includes royalties on four development-stage therapies, De...
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In May, the Enlarged Board of Appeal will hear a case on the lawfulness of conducting oral proceedings by compulsory video conference in case G1/21. Companies, professional associations and patent attorneys have filed 22 amicus curiae briefs on the issue. Among them, an alli...
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CureVac is currently developing a vaccine against the coronavirus, CV-nCoV. The biopharmaceutical company is expanding a broad integrated European production network, with experienced contract development and manufacturing organisation, in order to produce the vaccine. Marco...
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Medtron AG has acquired various patents for angiographic syringes from Pérouse Médical S.A.S. in an asset deal to complement its portfolio as one of Europe's leading manufacturers of state-of-the-art contrast agent injectors. Furthermore, various supplementary supply ...
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) (“Royalty Pharma”) and Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRNA) (“Dicerna”) today announced that Royalty Pharma has acquired Dicerna’s royalty interest in OXLUMO™ (lumasiran) for an upfront cash payment of $180 million and up...
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) today announced that it has acquired a royalty interest in the cabozantinib products Cabometyx and Cometriq from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for an upfront payment of $342 million and up to $50 million in additional payments contingent on the achi...
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Sirion Biotech announces a collaboration and license agreement with Sanofi to develop gene therapy treatments with improved adeno-associated virus capsids Sirion Biotech, a world leader in viral vector-based gene delivery ...
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) and Minerva Neurosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NERV) today announced that Royalty Pharma will acquire Minerva’s royalty interest in seltorexant for an upfront payment of $60 million and up to $95 million in additional milestone payments.
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GRUR-Int published a book review on Marco Stief’s book about current issues surrounding the scope of protection offered by SPCs. The ...
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Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (“AAFC”) and Evologic Technologies GmbH have entered into an assignment and licence agreement regarding the Phoma macrostoma technology.
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Royalty Pharma (Nasdaq: RPRX), BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) and Athyrium Capital Management, LP today announced transactions totaling $325 million in funding for BioCryst, with $250 million available at closing, to sup...
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Proxygen today announced they have entered into a collaboration and license agreement to enable the identification of molecular glue degraders against various oncogenic targets. The collaboration combines Proxygen’s unique molecular glue degrader d...
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) announced today an agreement to acquire the residual royalty interest in Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s cystic fibrosis (CF) treatments owned by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The agreement includes...
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amcure GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class cancer therapeutics, and Hinova Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Chengdu, China), one of the fastest growing start-up drug discovery and development companies in China, entered into an exclusive license agreement for AM...
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Biohaven will receive up to $250 million to fund zavegepant’s development in migraine and non-migraine indicationsRoyalty Pharma to acquire up to a 3% royalty for zavegepant, a 0.4% royalty of NurtecTM ...
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Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) announced today an agreement with PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTCT) to acquire a portion of PTC’s royalty interest in risdiplam for a one-time payment of $650 million. Risdiplam, to ...
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Gilead has now also failed to protect its HIV blockbuster drug Truvada in Germany, in the Europe-wide dispute over its property rights. The German Federal Court of Justice declared its supplementary protection certificate void (case ID: X ZR 172/18). The decision is a severe...
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Life sciences innovators in Europe are no longer entitled to patent term extension rights for new indications of drugs previously approved for other uses, following last week’s Santen judgment in which the CJEU in effect overturned its own 2012 decision in Neurim.
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June 12, 2020 Royalty Pharma and Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGIO), a leader in the field of cellular metabolism to treat cancer and rare genetic diseases announced that Agios has sold its tiered, sales-based roya...
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The “core inventive advance” of the basic patent has no relevance for Article 3(a) of the SPC Regulation With the rendering of the
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The European Patent Office has upheld one of the CRISPR patents shared by molecular cell and biology professor Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the University of Vienna. The decision reflected their rejection of arguments made by anonymous parties. "It is gratif...
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The Broad Institute has recently failed to protect its CRISPR-Cas patent before the Boards of Appeal. Now the European Patent Office has maintained a rival's basic patent for the same technology. The opponents are likely to appeal.
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The European Patent Office (EPO) has affirmed a patent issued to CRISPR pioneer Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, the Regents of the University of California, and the University of Vienna covering the single-guide CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system—rejecting arguments filed in opp...
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In a victory for the University of California, the European Patent Office (EPO) has affirmed a CRISPR patent issued to Emmanuelle Charpentier, the University of California, and the University of Vienna. The patent, Europea...
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Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel products for rare and ultra-rare diseases, and Royalty Pharma today announced that Ultragenyx has sold to Royalty Pharma for $320 million a royalty right due to Ultragenyx fro...
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Second medical use is currently a hot topic in pharmaceutical patents. In the dispute over the breast cancer drug containing the active ingredient fulvestrant, the generics manufacturers have landed a further victory. Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court yesterday dismissed Ast...
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Various generics manufacturers have won in the second instance in the dispute over supplementary protection certificates for cholesterol-lowering drug Inegy. The Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf dismissed the appeal of US originator Merck Sharp Dome (MSD) (case IDs: I-2 U 5...
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Allegations that the European Patent Office’s efficiency strategy is resulting in a decline in patent quality have been brewing for some time. Now, in an open letter to the current president Benoît Battistelli and his designated successor, António Campinos, the law firms...
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After the Battistelli era there is a new broom at the European Patent Office. The former president left a legacy of deep distrust of the leadership on the part of the workforce. The debate about the quality of the patents being granted by the EPO continues to rage. The new m...
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The European Patent Office has formulated a new vision for the next five years. A new EPO strategy was adopted by the office's 38 member states yesterday during the latest meeting of the Administrative Council. The strategy of President António Campinos has five goals: Empo...
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Royalty Pharma Buys 4.5 Percent Royalty on Worldwide Sales for $90 Million Plus $10 Million Equity in Cytokinetics. Cytokinetics Agrees to Exercise Option to Co-Fund Phase 3 Development Program Under Collabora...
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Royalty Pharma and Arteaus Therapeutics, a biotechnology development company co-founded by Atlas Venture and OrbiMed, announced today that Arteaus has sold its royalty interest on future global net sales of Eli Lilly and Company’s (NYSE: LLY) Emgality (galcanezumab), an an...
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Pharmakon Funds to Invest Up to $70 Million in Senior-Secured Loans to Epizyme. Royalty Pharma announced today that it has agreed to pay $330 million to purchase Eisai Co., Ltd.’s royalties on future worldwide s...
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The annual Trademark Administrators and Practitioners (TMAP) meeting of INTA took place this year for the first time in Europe. The event presented a number of important approaches on trademark management and team building.
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The dispute over a basic patent owned by medical technology manufacturer Brahms has taken a new turn. The Regional Courts Munich and Düsseldorf have suspended the pending infringement proceedings. Now everything hinges on a validity ruling from the Federal Court of Justice....
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Düsseldorf Regional Court has ruled that the German part of US manufacturer Beckman Coulter's patent (case ID: 4c O 88/17) is infringed by Sysmex. The dispute concerns diagnostics technology for laboratories. An opposition case before the EPO was withdrawn prior to the hear...
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Patent holder Brahms has won the next round in the long-standing dispute over procedures for detecting infections. The Federal Patent Court has dismissed a nullity suit from Radiometer (case ID: 3 Ni 16/17) The current dis...
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Recently, the District Court in Düsseldorf lifted several ex-parte preliminary injunctions granted for Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp. (MSD) against various generic companies. Subject of the proceedings is the cholesterol-lowering combination product Inegy®. Inegy® is a fi...
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Mundipharma has achieved a first success in defending the patent on its Targin analgesic. The Regional Court of Munich granted interim injunctions against several generics manufacturers. Targin is the top-selling pharmaceutical product of Limburg-based Mundipharma, which obt...
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Seven manufacturers of pharmaceuticals may for the time being continue marketing their generic products based on the HIV drug Truvada in Germany. The Regional Court of Munich rejected the applications of the US pharma concern Gilead for interim injunctions against Aliud, Bet...
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The law is actually very clear about the circumstances under which applicants may still change the claimed scope of protection of an application in the course of a grant procedure. But there are always exceptions, and the Appeal Boards of the European Patent Office have in t...
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Is it required that an active or an exact active combination is explicitly mentioned in the underlying patent, in order to allow a supplementary protection certificate (SPC)? This question has been differently answered within Europe since the ‚Medeva‘ decision of the Eur...
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The supplementary protection certificate of the US pharma company Gilead, which covers the active agent combination of the HIV medicament TRUVADA®, was nullified by the German Federal Patent Court (file no. 4 NI 12/17). Maiwald successfully represented the British generic p...
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Out of concern for the quality of patent granting by the European Patent Office (EPO), four law firms have addressed an open letter to the current president Benoît Battistelli and his designated successor António Campinos. Signing senders are lawyers of Grünecker, Hoffman...
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The so-called second medical use of medicaments is currently one of the most important topics in European patent law. The Düsseldorf Regional Court has issued an important decision in this regard in the judicial procedure of Astra Zeneca against Ratiopharm and Hexal. Accord...
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Numerous generics manufacturers are now allowed to sell their imitator preparations of the cholesterol-lowering drug Inegy in Germany. The Düsseldorf Regional Court overturned a preliminary injunction (Case No. 4b O37/18 to 4b O43/18) by which it had banned the sale of gene...
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Many had expected a rough start for António Campinos after the Battistelli era. This proved to be true. Just as the new President of the European Patent Office took up his job, four Munich patent firms wrote an open letter criticising problems at the EPO. The new buzzword i...
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