The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has been scrambling to adjust to recent developments in case law for patent subject matter eligibility, and the latest PTO response is a pilot program for new patent applications.
The epic rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., will preoccupy the world of business for decades to come, but this story has also left a large footprint in the world of clinical diagnostics. David Stein, CEO of Babson Diagnostics Inc., of Austin, Texas, told BioWorld that investors are a bit more wary than usual because of the Theranos saga, forcing test developers to be more rigorous in test development and more transparent with investors about a test.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has been scrambling to adjust to recent developments in case law for patent subject matter eligibility, and the latest PTO response is a pilot program for new patent applications.
Be careful who you’re doing business with. That’s the warning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sent this week to multinational drug and device companies doing business in terrorist hot spots around the world. Reversing a lower court, the D.C. Circuit cleared the way Jan. 4 for 21 drug and device companies to potentially be held accountable for doing business with Jaysh al-Mahdi terrorists, operating through the Iraqi Ministry of Health, who injured or killed hundreds of U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq.
Once the CDC accepts the recommendation of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the COVID-19 vaccine regimen, at least for the Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE vaccine, will include a booster dose for everyone 12 and older. ACIP voted 13-1 at a Jan. 5 emergency meeting to recommend the booster dose for 12- to 17-year-olds at least five months after a primary series of the Pfizer vaccine.
Over the course of the past two years, two presidential administrations and the U.S. Congress have set considerable sums of money aside for testing for the COVID-19 pandemic, but reports of shortages of tests have prompted a response from Capitol Hill.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine have shown how nanoparticles could be used to reduce neutrophil clumping in inflamed lungs – making them a pathway for diagnosis and treatment of acute lung inflammation (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
A split decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could give Novartis AG’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug, Gilenya (fingolimod), a little more breathing room from unlicensed generics.
After a six-month long trial, a jury found Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., a subsidiary of Jerusalem-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., liable in contributing to New York state’s opioid crisis that saw thousands die.
In the season of college bowl games, two long-time rivals are vying for another title, the right to claim being the first to install Siemens Healthineers AG’s Magnetom Free.Max magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. Both the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan said they were first in the U.S. to put in the recently approved system.
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