Life Sciences

  • January 15, 2025

    3rd Circ. Preview: NFL Concussion Benefits Fight Tops January

    The case of late NFL players' family members who say they shouldn't have to exhume their loved ones' remains to receive benefits from the national concussion settlement takes center stage in the Third Circuit's January argument session.

  • January 15, 2025

    Chinese Execs Sent Fentanyl Precursor To NY, Jury Told

    A novel fentanyl-trafficking case went to trial in New York federal court on Wednesday, with prosecutors arguing that two Chinese chemical executives inked a multimillion-dollar deal to export the raw materials for the drug to a Manhattan lab in 2023.

  • January 15, 2025

    Former FDA Official Joins King & Spalding Life Sciences Team

    King & Spalding on Wednesday announced that a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official has joined the firm's government matters and regulation practice group after an eight-year stint at the agency.

  • January 15, 2025

    FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3, Citing Cancer Link In Animal Studies

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said that it is banning the use of a red dye, Red No. 3, which gives food and drinks a bright red color but has also been linked to cancer in animals.

  • January 15, 2025

    Holland & Knight Adds Ex-GOP Rep. To Policy Advisory Team

    Holland & Knight LLP has hired seven-term Indiana Republican Congressman Larry Bucshon as a senior policy adviser.

  • January 15, 2025

    Justices Say Nixing Federal Claims Ends Federal Jurisdiction

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said a proposed class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food was appropriately sent back to state court, holding that once the plaintiff dropped her federal claims, the federal courts no longer had jurisdiction.

  • January 14, 2025

    Abbott, Novartis Settle HIV Test Patent Beef Ahead Of Trial

    Abbott Laboratories, Novartis and Grifols have reached a settlement in a yearslong battle over a patent covering a method for replicating DNA, putting to rest the litigation less than a month before it was set to go to trial, according to an entry in Illinois federal court posted Monday.

  • January 14, 2025

    Conn. City Hits PBMs And Pharma Cos. With Insulin Pricing Suit

    A city partway between New Haven and Hartford took pharmacy benefit managers and drug makers including CVS Health Corp., Eli Lilly and Co. and Novo Nordisk Inc. to Connecticut federal court on Monday, alleging that they conspired to keep diabetes medications and insulin at needlessly high prices.

  • January 14, 2025

    Latham Grabs Top Spot For 2024 IPOs By Large Margin

    Latham & Watkins LLP guided more initial public offerings than any law firm in 2024, capturing a diverse mix of large listings for companies that seized opportunities to go public as the broader IPO market inched toward recovery, new data shows.

  • January 14, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Judge Asks What's The Rush In Eylea Biosimilar Case

    Counsel for Amgen and a Federal Circuit judge got into a back-and-forth Tuesday concerning the pace of an appeal over a denied injunction on Regeneron's biosimilar of Eylea, with the judge wondering why the attorney was so eager to move things along.

  • January 14, 2025

    Chancery Hits Co. With $2.9M Atty Fee Bill As Sanction

    A California medical device molding company that sought millions from a merger partner for breaches of contract in Delaware's Court of Chancery came away Tuesday with awards of $104,000 for its claims and $2.9 million in attorney fees as a sanction for contempt and spoliation by Symbient Product Development LLC founder Scott Castanon.

  • January 14, 2025

    Cannabis Reformers Split After DEA Judge Cancels Hearings

    The cannabis legal and business world was divided Tuesday after a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration judge hit pause on widely anticipated and historic public hearings on the merits of a proposal to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana.

  • January 14, 2025

    Dispute Over Eli Lilly Weight Loss Drug Reignited

    Compounding pharmacies have reignited a suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the removal of a lucrative weight loss drug from the shortage list, with a Texas federal judge ordering both sides to turn in briefing on injunctive relief during a Tuesday hearing.

  • January 14, 2025

    SEC Sues Elon Musk Over Late Twitter Buy-Up Disclosure

    Elon Musk violated securities laws by failing to timely disclose his initial buy-up of Twitter stock ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company, allowing him to purchase shares at artificially low prices, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a D.C. federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

  • January 14, 2025

    Eli Lilly Says Colo. Clinic Selling Deceptive Weight Loss Drug

    Eli Lilly & Co. has sued a Denver health clinic for allegedly selling "unapproved and potentially dangerous" drugs marketed to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, which the pharmaceutical company said could give consumers the false impression that its U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medications don't work.

  • January 14, 2025

    TikTok Says NC Can't Fault Platform For Being 'Too Engaging'

    TikTok Inc. has asked for an early exit from the North Carolina attorney general's lawsuit accusing the video platform of harming young users, saying it has no significant ties to the Tar Heel state and the AG's office can't otherwise build a case around its platform being "too engaging."

  • January 14, 2025

    MIT Bio Lab Can't Use Anti-SLAPP To Duck Defamation Suit

    The Massachusetts Appeals Court on Tuesday ruled that the state's anti-SLAPP statute could not stop a suit brought by the former head of an MIT-affiliated biomedical research lab who stepped down amid a finding that he harassed a subordinate, though several of his claims were axed nonetheless.

  • January 14, 2025

    Mass. AG Says Insulin Makers, Middlemen Colluded On Costs

    Insulin makers Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk conspired with pharmacy benefit managers OptumRX, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark to jack up prices by as much as 1,000%, the Massachusetts attorney general alleged in a suit.

  • January 13, 2025

    Robo-Surgery Part Reset Is Reliable, Expert Tells Antitrust Jury

    A mechanical engineering expert who testified Monday in an antitrust trial in California federal court over claims that Intuitive Surgical Inc. abuses its market power by blocking hospitals from extending the life of a surgical robot part said the extension procedure was "thorough" and "reliable."

  • January 13, 2025

    Ozempic Maker Says Atlanta Clinic Misuses TM To Sell Meds

    Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes weight loss drugs Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, filed suit against an Atlanta anti-aging treatment center in Georgia federal court Friday, alleging trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.

  • January 13, 2025

    5 Firms Steer Up-To-$750M Sale Of Life Molecular Imaging

    Radiopharmaceutical-focused company Lantheus Holdings Inc. announced plans Monday to buy Life Molecular Imaging Ltd. for up to $750 million in a deal built by five law firms.

  • January 13, 2025

    Acting USPTO Chief Won't Review Seed IP Challenge Denial

    The acting leader of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shot down a bid by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, gene-editing startup to review decisions rejecting its challenges to patents covering purportedly novel corn seeds developed by a unit of DowDuPont spin-off Corteva.

  • January 13, 2025

    Goodwin Procter Adds NY IP Attys From Fenwick, Desmarais

    Goodwin Procter LLP announced Monday that it was expanding its intellectual property practice in New York with two scientifically talented lawyers, one from Fenwick & West LLP, the other from Desmarais LLP.

  • January 13, 2025

    Lilly To Buy Scorpion Cancer Program For Up To $2.5B

    Ropes & Gray LLP-led Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday it has agreed to purchase a precision breast cancer program of biotechnology company Scorpion Therapeutics Inc. for up to $2.5 billion. 

  • January 13, 2025

    PBMs' Federal Work Irrelevant To Opioid Suit, Mich. AG Says

    Michigan's attorney general urged a federal judge Friday to send a case accusing pharmacy benefit managers of stoking the opioid crisis back to the state court where it was originally filed, saying there is nothing federal about the claims.

Expert Analysis

  • Trump Rollback Of Biden Enviro Policies: What To Expect

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    Donald Trump's upcoming second presidential term will usher significant shifts in U.S. environmental and natural resource law and policy — and while the Biden administration is racing to secure its legacy, the incoming Trump administration is making plans to dramatically roll back most, if not all, of Biden's environmental initiatives, say attorneys at Beveridge & Diamond.

  • Takeaways From State Votes On Abortion In The 2024 Election

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    Attorneys at Epstein Becker discuss how 10 states voted on ballot initiatives to either protect or restrict access to abortion in the 2024 general election, and analyze overarching trends.

  • Key Territory-Split Licensing Lessons For Life Sciences Cos.

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    Territory-split deals can allow life sciences companies to maximize products' potential across a range of geographic areas, but these deals also present unique challenges requiring highly bespoke structures that can make or break the value of an asset, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Legislation Most Likely To Pass In Lame Duck Session

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    As Congress begins its five-week post-election lame duck session, attorneys at Greenberg Traurig break down the legislative priorities and which proposals can be expected to pass.

  • Justices Must Weigh Reach Of Civil RICO In Cannabis Case

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    Oral arguments in Medical Marijuana Inc. v. Horn suggest that a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court may agree that a truck driver's losing his job after unknowingly ingesting THC and failing a drug test does not merit a racketeering claim — but the court may not buy the other side's theory of the case either, say attorneys at Lewis Baach.

  • Litigation Strategies In View Of New Double Patenting Rulings

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    Recent Federal Circuit decisions, including in Allergan v. MSN, raise several issues that patent owners should understand and consider addressing proactively regarding obviousness-type double patenting, at least in their prosecution strategies, say attorneys at Dentons.

  • Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals

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    Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Series

    Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron. 

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata

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    Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    PREVAIL Bill Is Another Misguided Attempt To Restrict PTAB

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    The decade-long campaign against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board — currently focused on the PREVAIL Act that's slated for markup in the Senate — is not really about procedural issues, and it is not aimed at securing more accurate patentability decisions, says Clear IP's Joseph Matal, former acting director at the USPTO.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes

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    Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • Newly Acquired Information Can Be Key In Drug Label Cases

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    The question of whether federal law preempts state law claims is often central in pharmaceutical labeling cases, like the Fosamax litigation now before the Third Circuit — but parties must also consider whether there is newly acquired information to justify submitting a proposed labeling change in the first place, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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