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How a patent dispute with 10x helped decimate NanoString’s stock price

Recent $31 million damages award has dealt a further blow to the company's faltering share value

Software, electronics and semiconductors most transacted assets in Q3 2023

The latest AST Patent Deals Report shows assets being transacted by the likes of Huawei and Intel on the sell side, and Philips and Softbank on the buy side

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Winning patent strategies for biosimilars

Long Read: As all signs point towards a fresh surge of biosimilars litigation, experts from Goodwin Procter and Gemini Law analyse the previous tranche of disputes to tease out the strategies that can still be useful to rights holders

31 May 2023

Patent Term Adjustment in Brazil at the centre of major battle for IP owners

Almost 50 cases have arisen in which IP owners are asserting their rights to an extended timeframe, the outcomes of which will have major ramifications in Latin America’s largest economy

30 May 2023

Ravgen assertion campaign highlights problems with US patent reforms

The diagnostics innovator has bagged a further $100 million in damages, but the country’s patent system has put unnecessary hurdles in the way, argues representative John Desmarais.

25 May 2023

Diabetes drug ruling attempts to provide clarity amid pharma enforcement struggle

Pharma companies in India are struggling to enforce compounds that are covered by both genus and subsequent species patents. While the latest case involved a series of injunctions being vacated, the patent community is still unsatisfied by the lack of concrete judgments on this issue.

24 May 2023

US Sanofi-Aventis precedent adds to toolbox for patentee prosecution and litigation success

The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit limits analogous art, and innovators can leverage this precedent by adopting certain patent drafting methods

23 May 2023