The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments March 31 in the case of Kimble v. Marvel, a case that tackles the issue of whether royalties necessarily expire when the underlying patent expires.
SAN DIEGO — FDA and practicing physicians might not seem to have a naturally adversarial relationship, but a cardiologist of some repute called out FDA on the second day of the 2015 scientific sessions held by the American College of Cardiology (ACC; Washington). Jeff Popma of Beth Israel Deaconess (Boston), a cardiologist of some repute, attempted to light a fire under FDA's Office of Device Evaluation after a presentation of 30-day data for the third-generation Sapien device by Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California).