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  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A U.S. Patent Landscape Analysis
    law firm, and in particular licensed U.S. patent attorneys with appropriate technical and legal expertise. 177 pending applications and issued patents were selected as relevant. ...
    5-13-2013
  • Do Patents Control Self-Replicating Technologies?
    This legal doctrine of "first sale" or patent exhaustion attempts to strike a balance between protecting a patentee's intellectual property (incentive to invent), while encouraging ...
    5-1-2013
  • Tug of War Continues: Elan vs. Royalty
    Elan's financial advisors are Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Ondra Partners, and its legal advisors are A&L Goodbody and Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. The saga between the firms ...
    4-22-2013
  • BIO Celebrates 20th Anniversary
    Now BIO puts on the world's largest and most wide-ranging industry event. Back in 1993, BIO was almost totally focused on how to best represent the economic, legal, and political ...
    4-22-2013
  • People in the News
    to its scientific advisory board...Cytos Biotechnology hired Matthias Alder as evp for corporate development and legal affairs and Cheryl Lassen as vp for clinical development. ...
    4-15-2013
  • In Gene Patenting Case, a Myriad of Analogies
    Myriad is trying to protect its seven patents for BRCA 1 and 2 from a four-year-old legal challenge raised by 20 medical associations and individual doctors led by the Association ...
    4-15-2013
  • On Supreme Court Docket: Whose Gene Is It Anyway?
    The U.S. Supreme Court will finally take up the legality of gene patents Monday morning, when it hears oral arguments in the four-year-old legal wrangle over the patenting of ...
    4-14-2013
  • CEO Perks
    ... awarded for performance in 2008 £17,000 ($26,119): Allowance for professional fees (legal and pensions advice in connection with Brennan's retirement) £13,000 ($19,975): Car ...
    4-12-2013
  • GMO Rider: 'Monsanto Protection' or 'Farmer Sustainability'?
    agriculture to temporarily allow continued growing of crops previously approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), notwithstanding legal challenges around their safety. ...
    4-8-2013
  • ENCODE-ing the Future
    ... The goal of open data use is part of the larger open-access literature discussion, where there remain substantial technical and legal considerations. On the technical side, the ...
    4-1-2013
  • Actavis Eyes 2016 Generic Crestor Launch After Settling Patent...
    ... Even as they buried the hatchet on Crestor and the rosuvastatin zinc alternate, however, Actavis and AZ remain at odds on another generic drug. AZ touched off another legal wrangle ...
    3-25-2013
  • Diagnostic Tests and Patent Eligibility
    ... Even then, the legal application of Akamai to combined diagnostic and treatment steps remains untested. The Future of Patent Protection in Diagnostics Remains Cloudy How does one ...
    3-1-2013
  • Mylan Eyes Injectables Dominance with $1.6B+ Agila Buy
    ... Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is acting as Mylan's overall legal advisor, assisted by Slaughter and May and Platinum Partners. As branded drugs reach patent cliff, Mylan ...
    2-28-2013
  • Optimer Taps Chairman as CEO, Launches Strategic Review
    McKinnell's appointment as CEO, Optimer also said today its board hired J.P. Morgan and Centerview Partners as financial advisers, and the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell as its legal ...
    2-27-2013
  • Correction: Bowman v. Monsanto
    Monsanto et al . We have reposted the article under the title, " Planting the Seeds of Legal Victory ". GEN reported today that "Monsanto Gets Resounding 'Yes' from Supreme Court" ...
    2-22-2013
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    Mark A. Babizhayev
    Rejuvenation Research
    treatment and prevention of vision impairment in the older population of drivers for legal driving. The developed ophthalmic drug NAC formula showed potential for the ...
  • Posthumous Reproduction and Palliative Care
    Caprice Knapp, Gwendolyn Quinn, Bethanne Bower, Laurie Zoloth
    Journal of Palliative Medicine
    Abstract Posthumous reproduction is an issue fraught with legal, ethical, religious, and ... of the medical, ethical, and legal considerations associated with posthumous reproduction. ...
  • Resident Perceptions of Palliative Care Training in the Emergency...
    Nicholas Meo, Ula Hwang, R. Sean Morrison
    Journal of Palliative Medicine
    discussion of bad news and prognosis, legal issues, and withdrawing/withholding ... was in the area of advanced directives or legal issues at the end of life; the lowest ...
  • Publics and Vaccinomics: Beyond Public Understanding of Science
    Edna F. Einsiedel
    OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
    include problems in research and development, organizational issues, and legal and regulatory challenges that may collectively contribute to public resistance or ...

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