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Federal Circuit reminds litigants to cross-appeal patent invalidity claim

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in the context of patents on improvements to electronic animal collars, has in large part affirmed a lower

Biotech receives $32.5 million for cancer research

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey-based company that develops cancer therapies, has raised $32.5 million in the final closing of

Location of outside patent counsel may not subject company to state jurisdiction

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

A federal court in Massachusetts has dismissed a suit seeking a declaration of non-infringement filed by a Massachusetts company against a Texasbased company, finding that the defendant lacked sufficient contacts with Massachusetts to allow the court to exercise jurisdiction over it

French company prevails in dispute with FDA over drug-classification ruling

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2012

A federal court in the District of Columbia has determined that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) erred when it classified a combination drug-device product as primarily a drug, thus subjecting its French manufacturer to more burdensome regulatory requirements

Annual report reveals need for biotech shift in focus to demonstrate drug value

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

According to Ernst & Young's 27th annual biotechnology industry report, the global biotechnology industry has continued its recovery, but small and

NASA tests plant-based biofuel in jets

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers recently concluded a series of test flights in California to study the effects of

$13.6 billion deal to merge rival genetic-sequencing machine companies

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Thermo Fisher Scientific has reportedly agreed to purchase Life Technologies Corp. for $13.6 billion in a deal expected to close in early 2014

Obama signs Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

President Barack Obama (D) has signed into law legislation (S. 3486) that implements two patent law treaties: The Geneva Act of The Hague Agreement

Federal Circuit addresses personal jurisdiction in patent infringement litigation

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2012

Finding that the U.S. Supreme Court “has yet to reach a consensus on the proper articulation of the stream-of-commerce theory” of personal jurisdiction to assess whether a court has jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a patent infringement suit, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has applied its own theory, which assesses the pleadings and evidence under “any articulation of the stream-of-commerce theory,” and has determined that a district court in Wyoming properly dismissed two patent infringement lawsuits for lack of jurisdiction

USPTO seeks to intervene in publisher’s copyright infringement suit against law firm

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2012

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has filed a motion to intervene, and an answer and counterclaim, in litigation brought by scientific-journal publishers against a law firm for alleged copyright infringement involving articles on prior art copied and submitted with its clients’ patent applications