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  • No biosimilar producers have made use of an accelerated US approval pathway introduced in 2010, and now the first case has found against a biosimilar for Enbrel. George Yu and Jason Harp explain where this leaves the industry
  • In October 2013, the Controller General of Patents rejected M/s BDR Pharmaceuticals International's application seeking a compulsory licence for Bristol Myers Squibb's patent covering the active pharmaceutical ingredient dasatinib, which is used to treat patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The application was rejected at a prima facie level due to the applicant's failure to make reasonable efforts to seek a voluntary licence.
  • Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn has grown its IP litigation group with three new partners. Jamal Edwards joins the firm's Detroit office. He is a former partner of Kirkland & Ellis, a former regional counsel for the IBM Corporation in Chicago and a former executive with Equifax.
  • The international coffee shop chain Starbucks has failed to stop a US coffee roasting company from selling a product called Charbucks. Starbucks sued the New Hampshire-based Wolfe's Borough Coffee, which trades as Black Bear Micro Roastery, more than a decade ago. In November the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York backed a lower court that had declined to ban the defendant from selling Charbucks coffee.
  • One of the aims of this column is to be provocative, so here goes: there are good reasons to think that the continual and impressive growth in patent filing reported in the latest IP5 report will not continue, and that before long the number of applications will decline.
  • Universities such as Caltech are often held up as examples of good NPEs in discussions about intellectual property. What sorts of challenges do they face?
  • Members of the upper house in Australia’s parliament have called for the government to publish the final text of the trans-Pacific free trade deal before it is signed off by the cabinet
  • The Innovation Act was passed by the House of Representatives in a 325-91 vote yesterday, despite some heated opposition. It survived amendments that would have removed provisions moving to a loser-pays system and diluted the covered stay provisions
  • Former USPTO director David Kappos believes patent reform is being "rushed" in the House, with the Goodlatte bill up for vote this week, and has identified a number of issues with the legislation.
  • We are seeing a patent Bubble; we should not necessarily expect a Bust. But we might be wise to prepare for a Correction