/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2013-06-17T11:18:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/17/paytodelay_not_necessarily_illegal_but_not_long_for_the_world.php The Supreme Court has another ruling that affects the drug industry: FTC v. Actavis took up the question of "pay to delay", the practice of paying generic companies to go away and not challenge a branded drug. Actavis was in... 76484@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2013-06-17T11:18:51-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/13/the_supreme_court_rules_on_myriad.php Just a little while ago, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision (rare these days) in the Myriad Genetics case. I summarized the state of play up until the most recent arguments here, and if you're just getting up to... 76475@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2013-06-13T10:41:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/10/deuterated_drugs_an_obvious_idea.php Nature Medicine has an update on the deuterated drug landscape. There are several compounds in the clinic, and the time to the first marketed deuterium-containing drug is surely counting down. But, as mentioned at the end of that piece, another... 76466@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2013-06-10T06:52:56-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/01/novartis_loses_the_glivec_patent_fight_in_india.php This story is all over the news today, but it's my impression that most of the stories leave out crucial details. This is not just a big multinational drug company being put in its place by Indian courts, nor is... 76317@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2013-04-01T11:20:55-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/26/standard_of_care_not_so_fast_not_in_the_united_kingdom.php Did you know that in the UK, patent law says that using a competitor's compound as a comparison in a clinical trial is an infringement? I sure didn't. The government has realized that this rule is much stricter than most... 76239@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2013-02-26T11:45:27-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/10/31/oops_we_didnt_mean_to_publish_that.php Here's an interesting situation, courtesy of Retraction Watch - trying to pull back a paper because it disclosed something that was supposed to be the subject of your patent. Say the authors of the paper in the Korean Journal of... 75974@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-10-31T10:44:22-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/10/30/jq1_giving_up_a_fortune.php The Atlantic is out with a list of "Brave Thinkers", and one of them is Jay Bradner at Harvard Medical School. He's on there for JQ1, a small-molecule bromodomain ligand that was reported in 2010. (I note, in passing, that... 75970@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-10-30T08:48:57-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/09/19/the_american_chemical_societys_lawsuit_problem.php Since we've been talking about the ACS around here recently, I wanted to highlight a decision in a long-running court case the society has been involved in, American Chemical Society v. Leadscope. Rich Apodaca has a summary here of the... 75872@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chemical News 2012-09-19T06:38:37-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/17/the_myriad_gene_patent_case_trickier_than_you_might_think.php All right, there's been another ruling in the Myriad gene patent case, involving genetic testing for the BRCA mutations in breast cancer. There's been a lot of coverage of this, but not all of it gets the details right. And... 75820@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-08-17T06:59:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/06/18/what_compound_are_you_trying_to_patent_again.php I sure hope that Sanofi doesn't really want to own these compounds in this recent patent filing. (Thanks to a reader at another company for sending this along!) But what are the odds of that, given that they went to... 75705@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-06-18T08:35:21-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/06/11/chinas_compulsory_licensing.php The Chinese government recently amended its intellectual property law to allow for compulsory licensing. Similar measures are on the books in many other companies, and it's allowed under international patent law (WIPO) in cases of emergency or threats to public... 75694@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-06-11T07:34:04-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/05/24/publishing_without_consent.php Here's a note on an ugly situation: when a post-doc publishes a paper without the permission of the principal investigator. Now, this is a fairly rare situation, but still not as rare as you might imagine - the article itself... 75657@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2012-05-24T06:15:16-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/05/03/a_longdelayed_cox2_issue_gets_settled_for_450_million.php Has the last shot been fired, very quietly, in the COX-2 discovery wars? Here's the background, in which some readers of this site have probably participated at various times. Once it was worked out that the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (aspirin,... 75610@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Drug Industry History 2012-05-03T07:07:10-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/21/the_supreme_court_makes_me_smile.php I wrote here about the Mayo v. Prometheus case, which dealt with patents on the use of thiopurines for autoimmune therapy. But the patents didn't claim any thiopurine drugs themselves. Or their specific use for autoimmune therapy. Or vehicles to... 75538@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-03-21T07:33:27-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/05/department_of_lots_of_nerve_patent_applications_desk.php When you file a patent application, there are plenty of things that the PTO wants you to include. One of the big ones is prior art: you're supposed to disclose all the relevant inventions close to yours that you're aware... 75500@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Patents and IP 2012-03-05T12:49:01-05:00